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ing a note or two, and darting into the lower branches to 

 feed, and afterwards to rest. 



From the singularity of its colours, the construction of 

 its nest, and its preferring the apple-trees, weeping willows, 

 walnut and tulip-trees, adjoining the farm-house, to build 

 on, it is generally known, and, as usual, honoured with a 

 variety of'4iames, such as Hang-nest, Hanging-Bird, Golden 

 Robin, Fire-Bird (from the bright orange seen through the 

 green leaves, resembling a flash of fire), &c., but more 

 generally the Baltimore Bird, so named, as Catesby informs 

 UB, from its colours, which are black and orange, being 

 those of the arms or livery of Lord Baltimore, formerly 

 proprietary of Maryland. 



Their principal food consists of caterpillars, beetles, and 

 bugs, particularly one of a brilliant glossy green, fi'agments 

 of which are almost always found in their stomach, and 

 sometimes these only. 



The Baltimore inhabits North America from Canada to 

 Mexico, and is even found as far south as Brazil. 



ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. 



There is nothing more remarkable (says Mr. Nuttall) in 

 the whole instinct of our Golden Robin, than the ingenuity 

 displayed in the fabrication of its nest, which is, in fact, a 

 pendulous cylindric pouch of five to seven inches in depth, 

 usually suspended from near the extremities of the hign. 



