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line across the wings. Nests, in orchard trees or 
upon willows; eggs, four to six, bluish-white, 
sprinkled with dark-brown. This oriole isa rare 
visitor in Ontario. Feeds upon fruit, caterpillars 
and insects. 
l. baltimore—The Baltimore Oriole, or 
Golden Robin. 
This beautiful and well-known bird is one of 
our regular summer visitors. It arrives here 
about the middle of May. General color, black ; 
the rump, upper tail coverts, lesser wing coverts, 
the terminal portion of all but two tail feathers, 
and the under parts, orange-red ; the edges of 
quills, and a band across the tip of the greater 
coverts, white. The nest of this oriole is a beau- 
tiful piece of nest-architecture, and is usually 
constructed on the outer drooping twigs of elm 
or orchard trees; it is a pendulous cylindric 
pouch, of six or seven inches in depth; eggs, 
four or five, of a flesh color. The song of this 
beautiful bird is loud, full, and mellow. About 
the middle of September the Golden Robin 
leaves for the south. 
Sub-Family QUISCALINE.— The Grackles. 
Scolecophagus ferrugineus—The Rusty Grackle. 
This bird arrives here about the last of March, 
and retires to the low swampy thickets surround- 
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