. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 1. ORIOLUS. 199 Adult. General colour pale greenish yellow, the head brighter yellow, the lores and feathers round the eye black, encircling the nape in a circular band; wing-coverts coloured like the back, but edged with brighter yellow; primary-coverts black, with the ter- â minal half yellow, forming a large alar speculum ; quills black, broadly tipped with yellow, the secondaries externally margined with bright yellow, the primaries with greyish; the innermost secon- daries olive-yellow, broadly tipped with yellow, the inner web only blackish
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 1. ORIOLUS. 199 Adult. General colour pale greenish yellow, the head brighter yellow, the lores and feathers round the eye black, encircling the nape in a circular band; wing-coverts coloured like the back, but edged with brighter yellow; primary-coverts black, with the ter- â minal half yellow, forming a large alar speculum ; quills black, broadly tipped with yellow, the secondaries externally margined with bright yellow, the primaries with greyish; the innermost secon- daries olive-yellow, broadly tipped with yellow, the inner web only blackish ; middle tail-feathers black, tipped with yellow, all the other feathers bright yellow with black bases, the latter decreasing in size towards the outermost; " bill pale pink, inside of mouth fleshy ; legs plumbeous ; iris crimson; eyelids grey" (Oates). Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 5*3o, tail 3-5, tarsus 1. Toting. Differs from the adult, as do the young birds of the alUed species. Much duller in plumage than the adult, and whitish below, with black Head of Oriohts fenuirostris. Hah. Burmah and Pegu. a, h. Ad. sk. Moulmein. W. T. Rlanford, Esq. [P.]. c. Juv. sk. Thayet-mjo, Pegu. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 7. Oriolus maculatus *. Oriolus maculatus, Vieill. N. Diet, xviii. p. 194. Oriolus galbida, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 152 («ec Linn.). Oriolus chinensis, Ba^. t. c. p. 303 (nee Linn.). Oriolus coronatus, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 342 ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 232: Bli/fJi, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 48; id. Cat. B. Mns. A. S. B. App. p. xxiii. Oriolus hippocrepis, Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. Co. i. p. 271; Gray, Hand-L B. i. p. 292; Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 457. Oriolus horsfieldi, Bp. Consp. i. p. 348. Adult male. General colour above and below bright yellow; crown of head bright yellow, the lores and a band passing above and be- low the eye and encircling the nape black; least wing-coverts * Yieillot states that his 0. maeidattts i
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