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A MIDSUMMER PRINCE. 
Crcitius Catvert, second Baron of Baltimore, has a hold 
upon the recollections of mankind far surpassing that se- 
cured by any monument in the noble city which he found- 
ed, in the fact that the most charming bird that makes its 
summer home in the parks of that city bears his name. 
That bird is the Baltimore oriole—Jcterus baltimore of Lin- 
neeus. Its plumage is patterned in orange and black, the 
baronial colors of the noble lord’s livery; and Linneeus only 
paid an appropriate compliment to the source to which he 
owed his specimen of the new species, when, in 1766, he 
recognized the coincidence in the name. 
Then as now the orioles were among the most beautiful 
and conspicuous of woodland birds. From their winter re- 
treat under the tropies they return northward as the warm 
weather advances, arriving in Maryland during the latter 
part of April, and reaching central New England by the 
middle of May. In these migrations, performed mostly by 
