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coming in to my meals, I would open its cage 

 door, and calling it, it would perch on my finger, 

 and taking it to the table it would take breakfast 

 or dinner with me. It would hop round the 

 table, help itself to bread and butter, and sip tea 

 out of the saucer ; and after tasting of all that 

 was on the table, it would sit quietly near me, 

 until I put it into its cage again, when it would 

 give me its thanks, in all the little notes it could 

 muster. 



There is another bird of this class, named the 

 Orchard Oriole, which has caused much confu- 

 sion among naturalists, being confounded with 

 the above species ; they are closely allied, but 

 there is no doubt they are distinct. The male 

 is not near so beautiful a bird as the male of 

 the Baltimore, and, what is rather remarkable, 

 although found from Connecticut to Texas, they 

 are not found in Maine or Massachusetts. 



FOOD. -I feed them on meal and milk, with, 

 twice a week, a little beef, and hemp seed, bruised 

 in a mortar, and put in a box in the cage, so as 

 they can eat it when they please. When kept 

 in the house they probably do as well by getting 

 a little, as the saying is, of everything that is 

 going; a little cooked or raw meat, potatoes 



