British zoology . -featherswhite : the legs dufky. This bird is alio found in moft parts of received a fpecimen from Denmark, by meansof Mr. Brimnich, author of the Ornithologia Borealis,a gentleman to whofe friendfhip we owe a nu-merous collection of the curiofuies of his country. It feeds on nuts, from whence the name. History. IV. The ORIOLE. Oriolus Galbula. Lin. fyjl. The Witwal. Wil. cm. 198. 160. Faun. Suec No. 95. Rati fyn. av. 6$. Scopoli, No. 45. Kramer, 360. Le Loriot. Brijfon II. 320. Oriolus. Gefneraw. 713. Aldr. Golden Thrufh. Edzv. ;v. I. 418. npHIS beautiful b


British zoology . -featherswhite : the legs dufky. This bird is alio found in moft parts of received a fpecimen from Denmark, by meansof Mr. Brimnich, author of the Ornithologia Borealis,a gentleman to whofe friendfhip we owe a nu-merous collection of the curiofuies of his country. It feeds on nuts, from whence the name. History. IV. The ORIOLE. Oriolus Galbula. Lin. fyjl. The Witwal. Wil. cm. 198. 160. Faun. Suec No. 95. Rati fyn. av. 6$. Scopoli, No. 45. Kramer, 360. Le Loriot. Brijfon II. 320. Oriolus. Gefneraw. 713. Aldr. Golden Thrufh. Edzv. ;v. I. 418. npHIS beautiful bird is common in feveral parts* of Europe \ where it inhabits the woods, andhangs its neft very artificially between the /lenderbranches on the fummits of antient oaks. Its noteis loud, and refembles its name. I have heard ofonly one being mot in Great Britain^ and that inSouth It is of the fize of a thrufh : the head and wholebody of the male is of a rich yellow: the bill red; from THE ORIOLE M.^ Th, COLORKD UVZBL. j^:rv:


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