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Jour, but bordered with white. The lhape of its bill is 
the fame as that of the other orioles; its tail is long, and 
its wings, whenclofed, do not reach the third of the length. 
Inhabits Cayenne. 
49. Oriolus Aoonalafchkenfis, the Oonalalhka oriole : 
brown , fpot under the eyes and chin white ; throat and 
breall rufty-brown; bill and legs brown. It is about 
eight inches long; and inhabits the Iiland of Oonalalhka, 
one of the Abeutian or Fox iflands in the North Pacific 
Ocestn. 
50. Oriolus caudacutus, the (harp-tailed oriole: varie¬ 
gated; tail-feathers (harp-pointed. Bill and legs dulky ; 
crown brown or cinereous; cheeks brown; thighs and 
vent pale-yellow fpotted with brown ; belly white ; back 
varied with cinereous, black, and white; quill-feathers 
afTd wing-coverts brown, the latter edged with rufty; tail 
dulky-olive, with pale bands. Inhabits New York ; fize 
of a lark. 
51. Oriolus Sinenfis, the kink oriole: white; head, 
neck, bread, and upper part of the back, cinereous; quill- 
feathers deel-biue ; tail rounded, half of it white, and half 
deel-blue. It inhabits China ; and is about fix inches 
and a half long. 
51. Oriolus aureus, the Paradife oriole: colour tawny- 
yellow ; frontlet, chin, primary tail-coverts, and feathers, 
black at the extremity; bill brown. Inhabits India; 
eight inches long. 
53. Oriolus viridens, the whidling oriole. This bird 
is in general brown above, except the rump and the fmall 
coverts of the wings, which are of a greenilh yellow, as 
alfo in the whole under-part of the body; but this colour 
is dulky below the throat, and variegated with rudy on 
the neck and bread; the great coverts and the quills of 
the wings, as well as the twelve of the tail, are edged 
with yellow. But, to form an accurate idea of the plu¬ 
mage of the whidler, we mud imagine an olive-tint of 
various intenfity fpread over all the colours without ex¬ 
ception. To charadlerife the predominant colour of the 
plumage of this bird, therefore, we ought to take olive, 
and not green, (viridens,) as Bridon has done. The 
whidler is about feven inches long, and ten or twelve 
inches acrofs the wings; the tail, which is unequally 
tapered, is three inches in length, and the bill nine or 
ten lines. * 
54,. Oriolus furcatus, the fork-tailed oriole: black; 
back, rump, quill-feathers, and forked tail, inclining to 
blue; lower tail-coverts white. Bill yellow': tail long; 
legs and claws black. Inhabits St. Domingo; and is 
about feven inches long. 
55. Oriolus cryfocephalus, the golden-headed oriole. 
In this bird the crown of the head, the fmall coverts of 
the tail, thofe of the wings, 3 nd the lower part of the 
thigh, are a beautiful yellow ; the red of the body entirely 
black or blackilh: it is about eight inches long, twelve 
inches acrofs the wings, the tail confiding of layers, con¬ 
taining twelve quills, each four inches long. Inhabits 
America. 
ORI'ON, / [Latin.] One of the condeWations of the 
fouthern hemifphere: 
When with fierce winds Orion arm’d 
Hath vex’d the Red-Sea coad. MiUon't P. L. 
Orion is one of the brighted condellations of the 
fouthern hemifphere; and, as it occupies a large fpace 
there, this circumdance may probably have given the an¬ 
cients, and particularly Pindar, occafion to fay that 
Orion was a perfon of a mondroufly large fize, which 
Manilius exprelfes in thefe words, “ magni pars maxima 
cceli.’’ See the next article. Nothing was more noted 
among the ancients than this condellation. It is men¬ 
tioned in feveral paffages of the Bible; as Job, ix. 9. 
Erek. xiii. 10. Amos v. 5. The Septuagint and the Vul¬ 
gate call it Orion, as well as the Greeks. The word is 
formed from the Greek afur, “ to water;” the ancients 
fuppo.fi.ng, that.it raifed temp.eds at its rifing and fetting, 
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The dars in the condellation Orion, in Ptolemy’s Cata¬ 
logue, are 38; in Tycho’s and Hevelius’s, 62; in the 
Britannic Catalogue, 78. 
ORTON, in fabulous hidory, a celebrated giant, fprung 
from the urine of Jupiter, Neptune, and Mercury. Thefe 
three gods, as they travelled over Bceotia, met with great 
liofpitality from Hyrieus, a peafant of the country, who 
wasignorantoftheirdignity. They were entertained with 
whatever the cottage ad'orded ; and, when Hyrieus had 
difcovered that they were gods, he welcomed them by the 
voluntary facrifice of an ox. Pleafed with his piety, the 
gods promifed to grant him whatever he required ; and the 
old man, who had lately lod his wife, defired that, as 
he was childlefs, they would give him a fon without an¬ 
other marriage. The gods confented; and they ordered 
him to bury in the ground the Ikin of the vidim, into 
which they had all three made water. Hyrieus did as 
they commanded; and when, nine months after, he dug 
for the (kin, he found in it a beautiful child, whom he 
called XJriun , ab urina. The name was changed into' 
Orion by the corruption of one letter, as Ovid fays, 
Perilidit antiquum littera prima J'onum. 
Orion foon rendered himfelf celebrated ; and Diana 
took him among her attendants, and even became deeply 
enamoured of him. His gigantic ftature, however, dif- 
pleafed GEnopion king of Chios, whofe daughter Hero, 
or Merope, he demanded in marriage. The king, not to 
deny him openly, promifed to make him his fon-in-law as 
foon as he delivered his ifland from wild beafts. This 
talk, which CEnopion deemed impracticable, was foon 
performed by Orion, who eagerly demanded his reward. 
(Enopion, on pretence of complying, intoxicated his il- 
lultrious gueft, and put out his eyes on the fea-lhore,. 
where he had laid himfelf down to lleep. Orion, finding 
himfelf blind when he awoke, was conduced by the 
found to a neighbouring forge, where he placed one of 
the workmen on his hack, and, by his directions, went 
to a place where the rifing fun was feen with the greateit 
advantage. Here he turned his face towards the lumi¬ 
nary; and, as it is reported, he immediately recovered his 
eye-fight, and haltened to punilli the perfidious cruelty, 
of G 2 nopion. 
It is faid, that Orion was an excellent workman in iron,- 
and that he fabricated a fubterraneous palace for Vulcan. 
Aurora, whom Venus had infpired with love, carried him 
away into the iiland of Delos, to enjoy his company with 
greater fecurity ; but Diana, who was jealous of this, 
deltroyed Orion with her arrows. (Odylfey, b. v.) Some 
lay, that Orion had provoked Diana’s refentment by of¬ 
fering violence to Opis, one of her female attendants; or,, 
according to others, becaufe he had attempted the .virtue 
of the goddefs herfelf. According to Ovid, Orion died : 
of the bite of a fcorpion, which the earth produced, to • 
punilh his vanity for boalting that there was not on earth* 
any animal which he could not conquer. 
Some fay that Orion was fon of Neptune and Euryale,, 
and that he had received from his father the privilege and ■. 
power of walking over the fea without wetting his feet. 
Others make him fon of Terra, like the reft of the giants. 
He had married a nymph called Sida before his connec¬ 
tion with the family of (Enopion ; but Sida was the caul'e 
of her own death, by boafting herfelf fairer than Juno. 
According to Diodorus, Orion was a celebrated hunter,. 
fuperior to the reft of mankind by his ftrength and un¬ 
common ftature. He built the port of Zancle ; and forti¬ 
fied the coaft of Sicily againft the frequent inundations of 
the fea, by heaping a mound of earth, called Pelorum, on 
which he built a temple to the gods of the fea. After 
death, Orion was placed in heaven, where one of the con- 
ftellations ftill bears his name. The condellation of 
Orion, placed near the feet of the Bull, was compofed of 
17 ftars in the form of a man holding a fword, winch has 
given occafion to the poets often to fpeakof Orion’s fword. 
As the condellation of Orion, which riles about the 9th * 
day Qf March, and fet6 about the 21ft of June, is gene- . 
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