HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
GOLDEN ORIOLE. 
Oricius galbula, PENNANT. Monracu. Berwick. 
Oriolus—,......000>? Galbula—A diminutive of Ga/bus—Yellow. 
Tus splendid bird is a native of the continent of Kurope, 
and of portions of those of Africa and Asia, In the first 
named it is plentiful in Spain, Italy, and France, and is also 
found in Germany, Bavaria, Holland, and Malta, in the latter 
on its passage at the seasons of migration. It occurs im 
Persia, and Asia Minor, and in Egypt, and other parts of 
the northern shores of Africa. 
The Golden Oriole, though not one of our very rarest 
visitors, is yet sufficiently unfrequent to justify an enumeration 
of the different specimens recorded as having occurred. In 
Yorkshire one, a fine female, was killed in the spring of 1834, 
near the Lighthouse at the Spurn Point, at the mouth of 
the Humber. In April, 1824, one was shot at Aldershot, in 
Hampshire. Two are related by Dr. Moore to have been 
met with m Devonshire. In Cornwall several have been 
obtained; one near the Land’s End in 18338. In Lancashire 
one, near Manchester, in July, 1811, and one at Quernmore 
Park, near Lancaster. In Surrey one was seen by Mr. Meyer, 
on Burwood Common, near Walton-on-Thames, and one was 
shot near Godalming, in 1833. One seen near Cheshunt. In 
Suffolk two were taken near Saxmundham, and the nest is 
said to have been found in that county. In Norfolk a pair 
were shot at Diss, one at Hethersett, near Norwich, in April, 
1824, and one, a male, at Heigham, in the environs of Norwich, 
on the 8th. of May, 1847; the female, it is believed, was seen 
at the same time: a pair also built in the garden of the 
Rev. Mr. Lucas, of Ormsby. In the county of Durham one 
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