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CHAPTER XVI.

THE ORIOLES.

There are yet two birds to be described which

Jerdon calls Bulbuls, though I can see nothing bulbuline about them and am inclined to agree with those who would put them with the Orioles. But Jerdon had to invent English names for more than a thousand birds, and it is little wonder if he was sometimes hard-pressed. The one which I will mention first, because it is one of the very commonest birds

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