WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD 



XIV 



A MIDSUMMER PRINCE 



ECILIUS CALVERT, second 

 Baron of Baltimore, has a hold 

 upon the recollections of man- 

 kind far surpassing that secured 

 by any monument in the noble 

 town which he founded, in the 

 fact that the most charming bird 

 that makes its summer home in 

 the parks of our cities bears his 

 name. That bird is the Balti- 

 more oriole — Icterus baltimore of 

 Linnaeus. Its plumage is pat- 

 terned in orange and black, the 

 baronial colors of the noble lord's 

 livery; and Linnaeus only paid 

 an appropriate compliment to the 

 source to which he owed his 

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