Pt AC S. Inhabits North America. A t Ciipt. Davies's I faff One o f thefe,
which at firft fight appeared of a different fpeeies. Tlie plumage
abrownifhgloflyblack, but each feathermargined .withferruginoiis
brown, the quills and tail excepted, which were of a plain black
colour. I have obferved likewife a fecond of thefe, in the Britifb
'Mufeum, which was placed with the two others firft defcribed, in
one cafe, as a young bird ; and it is raoft likely a male, as the
ground colour is black, which, had it been a female, would have
partaken more o f a brown colour.
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BLACK
O.
D escription.
F imalk.
Plac*.
Le petit Troupi&le ribir,. Buf. off. iii, p !|« r ,-
Troupiale de la CaroHne-, Pl.enl, 606. f. 1. the female P
ro ETWEEN fix and feven inches long. 'Bill black;. the whole
plumage is likewife of a fine glolfy black throughout, but
about the head tinged with blue.
The female has the head and neck not of fodeep a black as the
reft of the body, tinged with blue on the wings and-tail, which is
even at the ends.
This is according to Buffon, who gives it . as a non-defeript
fpecies; obferves that it is found in America,, and foon grows
tame.
That figured in . the Planches enluminees as a female, has the
head and neck cinereous brown. We have the name of a braon-
headed Oriole in the catalogue of North American animals, as a
new fpecies; and I have this very bird in my poffeflion, but was
led to fuppofe it a male, having feen at Capt. Davies’s one p f the
fame, with what was efteemed the female, ;in the fame cafe. This
was wholly ofadulky alh-colour, paleft beneath t achin and throat
white:
O R I O L E .
white: bill and legs exaflly like the other. I am divided how to
form my opinion here, as this laft feems to be very like that defcribed
by Catejby * under the name of Cowpen.
The Rice-bird of Guiana, mentioned by Bancroft-j-, feems like
Buffo»’s male. He fays it has the bill of the Mocking-bird of
Guiana : fioall eyes, of a lively black, furrounded with circles of
■ naked white Qtin: its head final!: and all its feathers as black
as jet. i t frequents the fields of rice, whence its name.
T-iPujiiaie•olive de Cayenne, Buf. oif. iii* p. 223.—PI. enl. 606. {. 2.
g f L L black : head, throat, fore part o f the neck, and breaft,
bright glofiy -brown ; deepefi on the throat; inclining to
orange on the breaft, where it blends itfelf with the adjoining colour
: the reft of the body olive, paleft on the under parts: the
quills are dulky or black, with a mixture of brown : legs black.
Inhabits Cayenne.
39-
CAYENNE
OLIVE
O.
D escription-.
Place.
40.
AOONALASHj
jE i^ G T H eight inches. Bill brown : plumage above brown.; O.
the middle of the feathers darkeft: between bill and eye a Description.
white mark : the wing coverts and feepnd quills have the outer
edges ferruginous: firft quills brown: tail the fame, but the
outer edges ferruginous : chin dirty white : on each fide, under
the throat, a diverging mark of brown : fore part of the neck and
breaft ferruginous brown : middle of the belly plain: fides dulky:
legs brown.
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* -Hift. Carol, pi. 34.
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Btfi. Gums, p, 17g,
Inhabits