_J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._ ] ORIOLUS VIRIDIS. New South Wales Oriole. _Gracula viridis_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxviii.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. vii. p. 473. _Loriot_, Temm. Man. d’Orn., 2nd Edit. p. liv. _Green Grakle_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 129.—Ib. Gen. Hist., vol. iii. p. 168. _Coracias sagittata_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxvi.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 400. _Striated Roller_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 122.—Ib. Gen. Hist., vol. iii. p. 83. _Streaked Roller_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iii. p. 84, young. _Mimetes viridis_, King, Survey of Intertropical Coast of Australia, vol. ii. p. 419. _Mimeta viridis_, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 326.—Jard. and Selb. Ill. Orn., vol. ii. pl. 61.—G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, 2nd Edit. p. 38. —— _Merulöides_, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 327, young. _Oriolus viridis_, Vieill., 2nd Edit. du Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. xviii. p. 197.—Ib. Ency. Méth. Orn., part ii. p. 697. —— _variegatus_, Vieill., 2nd Edit. du Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. xviii. p. 196.—Ib. Ency. Méth. Orn., part ii. p. 696. This bird was first described by Latham, by whom it was placed in the genus _Gracula_, but it agrees in no respect with the members of that genus, and “in fact,” says Captain King, “the genus _Oriolus_ is that to which it bears the closest resemblance in its general appearance. I would at once refer it to that genus, but that I have some reason to think that it belongs to the meliphagous birds.... Of the tongue or mode of feeding I can myself say nothing decisively; but general opinion places this bird among the groups that feed by suction, and as I have a second species hitherto undescribed which is closely allied to it, I prefer forming both provisionally into a new genus” (_Mimetes_) “to referring them to one, from which, although they agree with it in external appearance, they may be totally remote in consequence of their internal anatomy and habits of life. If the tongue be found to accord with that of the _Orioles_ and not of the _Honey-suckers_, my group of course must fall.” Messrs. Jardine and Selby took the same view of the subject when describing and figuring the bird in their “Illustrations of Ornithology,” and have given a description of the structure of the tongue, which certainly offers a slight resemblance to that of the true meliphagous birds; but my own observations of the bird in a state of nature enable me to affirm that in appearance, habits, economy, and in the nature of its food it is truly an Oriole, to which group of birds it was correctly assigned by M. Vieillot in the second edition of the “Dictionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle,” and that consequently Captain