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SUBGENUS YPHANTES VIEILLOT. 

 ICTERUS GALBULA (LiNN.). 



207. Baltimore Oriole. (507) 



Male. : With head and neck all round, and the back, black ; rump, upper 

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

 parts from the throat, fiery-orange, but of varying intensity according to age 

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

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

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

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

 sometimes entirely wanting. Young : Entirely without the black on throat 

 and head, otherwise colored nearly like the female. 



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 



