250 BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



detail below. If anything, it arrives a few days later than the 

 Baltimore Oriole and is one of the very first birds to leave, 

 rarely seen after July 15. Immature birds or dull females of 

 the two Orioles are sometimes confused. The Orchard Oriole 

 is distinctly olive green above, not brownish orange, and is 

 dull yellow below, never with an orange shade. As a result 

 the difference in color above and below is much less con- 

 trasted. The throat is either solid black or entirely yellow, 

 never spotted with blackish. It is one of our finest songsters, 

 the rich continuous warble utterly different from and greatly 

 superior to the whistled disconnected phrases of its relative. 

 Its chatter is, if anything, even harsher and more prolonged. 



Long Island. A local summer resident, so known only at west 

 end and north shore; (May 1) May 6 to August 18. 



ORIENT. Rare summer resident, May 6, 1916 (Mrs. Frank 

 D. Smith) to August 18, (Mabel R. Wiggins). 

 MASTIC. Uncommon transient in spring. 

 LONG BEACH. No record. 



New York State. Fairly common summer resident on Staten 

 Island (Chapin), chiefly on the coastal plain. Rare and irregular in 

 the Bronx Region. Common at Ossining (Fisher), where it has 

 been reported as late as August 6. 



CENTRAL PARK. Rare transient, May 11, 1911 (Griscom) 

 to May 25, 1904 (Hix); a pair bred in 1908; no fall records. 



BRONX REGION. Breeds regularly near Baychester (L. N. 

 Nichols) ; bred at Rye in 1887 (Dwight) ; a pair bred at River- 

 dale in 1917 (Griscom); almost unknown as a transient; May 

 8, 1919 (L. N. Nichols) to July 13, 1919 (L. N. Nichols). 

 New Jersey. A summer resident with an inexplicable distribu- 

 tion. Along the southern boundary of the area it is commoner than 

 the Baltimore Oriole. Only a few scattered pairs are reported in the 

 whole area bounded by the Hudson River and a north and south 

 line running approximately twenty miles inland. Thence increas- 

 ing westward and northwestward, but absent from the Kittatinny 

 Ridge, the Wawayanda Plateau and Bearfort Mountain. In the 

 lowlands of Sussex and Warren Counties it is quite as common as 

 the Baltimore Oriole (Griscom, Hix, and others), and along the 

 Delaware River from Dingman's Ferry to the State line it is un- 

 questionably commoner (Griscom). Its distribution is surprisingly 



