. The birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region . by Lucan and Petit,and I should doubt its being migratory in its habits, asVerreaux implies. In its most eastern known range it has been obtainedby Bohndori! in Sassa, about 4° .30 X. lat. by •20 E. long. -I X < US < in QK S w X. o 3 CO to o ORIOLUS CRASSIROSTRIS 21 Oriolus crassirostris (Pi. 43). Oriolus crassirostris, Hartl. Orii. W. Afr. p. 266 (1857) St. Thomas Isl.;Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iii. p. 217 (1877); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 575(1896) ; Reichen. Yog. Afr. ii. p. 662 (1903); Bocage, Jorn.
. The birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region . by Lucan and Petit,and I should doubt its being migratory in its habits, asVerreaux implies. In its most eastern known range it has been obtainedby Bohndori! in Sassa, about 4° .30 X. lat. by •20 E. long. -I X < US < in QK S w X. o 3 CO to o ORIOLUS CRASSIROSTRIS 21 Oriolus crassirostris (Pi. 43). Oriolus crassirostris, Hartl. Orii. W. Afr. p. 266 (1857) St. Thomas Isl.;Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iii. p. 217 (1877); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 575(1896) ; Reichen. Yog. Afr. ii. p. 662 (1903); Bocage, Jorn. , p. 77. Adult. Entire head, upper neck and throat black; remainder of the neckyellowish white, passing into ashy yellow on the back ; upper ta1-covertsslightly yellower; two centre tail-feathers dusky shaded olive yellow, withpale yellowish terminal margins ; remainder of tail black, with pale yellowends broadest on the outer feathers where the yellow extends over the endthird ; wings dusky black, strongly washed with grey on the coverts andouter webs of the secondaries, and shaded with yellow towards thescapulars; quills with the outer and terminal margins white, broadesttowards the ends of the feathers ; inner margins of basal half of quillswhite; under wing-coverts slightly mottled with black, otherwise whi
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