46 THE BIRDS OF 



Orchard and Baltimore Orioles 

 The Baltimore Oriole is the brighter 

 of our two northern Orioles (Plate 5, 

 p. 41). The male is orange, with black 

 wings and tail, and his song shows his 

 animated nature as well as his color, 

 for it is clear and bright. How one 

 misses it when the bird leaves, and he 

 leaves early, for the South! The female 

 is dull yellow. The male Orchard 

 Oriole is chestnut where the Balti- 

 more is orange. The female is greener 

 than the Baltimore female. The young 

 male for two years is like the female, 

 but with a black throat. The Baltimore 

 is the commoner in the Somerset Hills. 

 It builds a hanging nest about five inches 

 deep, and usually gray in color. The 

 Orchard builds a partly hung nest, un- 

 like that of the Baltimore. The Or- 

 chard's song is so much like that of 

 the Rose-breasted Grosbeak that it is 



