Subgenus YPHANTES Vieillot. 

 ICTERUS GALBULA (Linn.). 



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Baltimore Oriole. (oOT) 



Male : — With head and neck all round, and the back, black ; iiunp, upper 

 tail coverts, lesser wing coverts, most of the tail feathers, and fall the under 

 parts from the throat, fiery-oi'ange, but of varying intensity according to age 

 and season ; middle tail feathers, black ; the middle and greater coverts anil 

 inner quills, more or less edged and tipped with white, but the white on the 

 coverts not foiming a continuous patch ; bill and feet, blue-black. Length, 

 7^-8 ; tail, 3. Female : — Smaller, and much paler, the black obscured by olive, 

 sometimes entirely wanting. Young: — Entirely without the Idack on throat 

 and head, otherwise colored nearly like the Jemale. 



Hab. — Eastern United States, west nearly to the Rocky Mountains. 



Nest, purse shaped, pensile, about six inches deep, composed chiefly of 

 vegetable fibre, with which is often intertwisted rags, paper, thread, twine 



