Bullock'soriole

Bullock'soriole
Bul·lock's oriole (bo͝olʹəks) n.
A subspecies (Icterus galbula bullockii) of the northern oriole in its western range, distinguished from the Baltimore oriole in the male by its orange cheeks and large white wing patches and in the female by its whiter belly.
  [After William Bullock, 19th-century British naturalist.]

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Universalium. 2010.

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