. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . very little affinityto each other, but w^hich Daudin, Vieillot, and others, have se-parated into several genera. The American species have beenreferred to the genera Cassicus, Icterus, XantJiornus, and someothers, which are in a manner intermediate between the Stur-ninae and the Conirostres; and the genus as now restricted com-prehends only tho
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . very little affinityto each other, but w^hich Daudin, Vieillot, and others, have se-parated into several genera. The American species have beenreferred to the genera Cassicus, Icterus, XantJiornus, and someothers, which are in a manner intermediate between the Stur-ninae and the Conirostres; and the genus as now restricted com-prehends only those species, all belonging to the Old Continent,which bear a strong resemblance in form to the Golden Oriole,Oriohcs Galbula, the only species that visits Europe. It ap-pears to me strange that the Orioles should ever have beenassociated with such birds as the Icteri and Quiscali, to whichthey seem to have very little affinity. Their short tarsi andbroad toes appear to approximate them to the Rollers, and boththese genera seem to be allied in the form of their bill to theFlycatchers and Shrikes. But upon the whole, the Orioles areprobably more allied to the Thrushes and Thremmaphilinae,than to any other groups. 73 ORIOLUS GALBULA. GOLDEN Fig. 124. Oriolus Galbula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 160. Oriolus Galbula. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 186. Golden Oriole. Mont. Orn. Diet. Loriot. Oriolus Galbula. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 129. Golden Oriole. Oriolus Galbula. Selb. Illustr. I. 176. Oriolus Galbula. Golden Oriole. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 102. 3fale with the plumage hright-yellow, the wings black, theprimary coverts, and all the quills excepting the first and secondtipped with yellow ; the tail-feathers black, tipped Uith yellow, thespace of the latter colour enlarging from the medial to the lateralfeathers ; the loral space blach. Female greenish-yelloio above,yellowish-white beneath, marked with longitudinal dusky lines; theicings and tail brown, tipped as i?i the male with yelloic. Male.—
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