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Oriole. — Contin. 



same locality. In other words, since it is known that all the different in- 

 dividuals of a species are not exactly alike, as though all were cast in the 

 same die, as some naturalists appear to have believed." — Allen, J. A.: 

 Notes on some of the Rarer Birds of Mass. {Amer. Naturalist, vol. v., December, 

 18G9, pp. 509-510.) 



"Robins, song-sparrows, and perhaps all other birds sing differently 

 from each other, so far as I have observed ; but none differ so greatly, in 

 my opinion, as orioles. The four that I have been able to study care- 

 fully enough to reduce their song to the musical scale, though all hav- 

 ing the same compass, arranged the notes differently in every case." — 

 Miller, O. T. : Bird-ways, pp. 119-120. 



" I bethink me now of two of these orioles, with whom I have been 

 acquainted for several summers. I do not know them by their shares 

 and plumes; I recognize them by their songs. During their sojourn 

 here, which extends from May to October, they take up their residences 

 within about a quarter of a mile of one another, — the one in a public 

 park, the other in an orchard. And often have I heard the chief musi- 

 cian of the orchard, on the top-most bough of an ancient apple-tree, sing : 



to which the chorister of the park, from the summit of a maple, would 

 respond, in the same key : — " 



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Munger, C. A. : Four American Birds. (Putnam's Mag., N. s. vol. iii., June, 

 1869, p. 726.) 



Song of Female Oeiole. 



Mr. Ingersoll remarks in "Friends Worth Knowing," 

 that the female oriole has a " pretty song, which mingles 

 with the brilliant tenor of the male during all the season 

 of love-making." When the little ladies in feathers get 

 their due it will probably be admitted that the lord and 

 masters of no family have all the song. 



