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Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925 Grld, H. (Henrik), 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Passeriformes -- Great Britain Passeriformes -- Ireland Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Ireland
Publisher: Hull London : Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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aunders was fully justified in adoptingthe present family for the Orioles. Familx— ORIOL ID^E. The Golden Oriole. Oriolus ga/bula, LiNN. BREEDS in suitable localities throughout Europe south of the Baltic and inAlgeria; passes through Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, and Nubia,on migration; and winters in North Africa, south-eastwards to Madagascar,Natal, and westwards to Damara Land: stragglers sometimes occur in Madeira,and the Azores. The Golden Oriole is a regular visitor to our shores in spring, the largestnumber having been seen in the Scilly Islands, and Cornwall; it has, however,been met with in not a few of the southern and south-eastern counties, and severalinstances of its breeding with us have been recorded. In 1868, I saw a malespecimen of this bird near Linton, in Devonshire, and in July, 1887, I was justtoo late to see the species in Essex; Mr. Fitch, of Maldon (whom I was visiting)informed me that the bird had been seen in one of his thickets during the previous
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O 5 O 2z O o The Golden Oriole. 3 week. We visited the place iu the hope of discovering a uest, but were unsuc-cessful. In Ireland it has chiefly occurred on the east coast, most of the examplesbeing females, or immature males ; a specimen was recorded as shot in the FaroeIslands, in Maj^ 1893, by Col. H. W. Feildeu. In June, 1906, one was killedby a cat on the Marine Parade at Brighton. Perhaps the nearest point toLondon at which it has been recognized, was noted in the Zoologist for 1892,an example having apparently been seen in Richmond Park. The male of this species is bright gamboge-yellow, the lores, wings (exceptingthe terminal third of the primary-coverts) and a great part of the tail black; theprimaries, excepting the two outermost, are edged externally, and the secondariesare tipped with j^ellowish-white; the two central tail-feathers are yellowish at thebase, and yellow at the tip, and the other feathers have the terminal third of theouter webs, and borders of the inner web

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