62 ORCHARD ORIOLE 



plant lice, flies, hairless caterpillars, cabbage 

 worms, grasshoppers, rose bugs, and larvae of all 

 kinds, while the few berries it may help itself to 

 during the short time they last are many times 

 paid for by the great number of noxious insects 

 destroyed, and it certainly deserves the fullest pro- 

 tection." (Bendire.) Locust leaf-mining beetles 

 are also on the Oriole's list, and it is interesting 

 to note that, in a case where it had a choice be- 

 tween cherries and mulberries, it took mulberries. 

 Major Bendire notes : " The Orchard Oriole 

 is a very sociable bird, and does not object to 

 other species nesting in the same tree with it ; it 

 seems to be on especially good terms with the 

 Kingbird." Its nest is cup-shaped and less pen- 

 sile than the Baltimore's, not so deep, and usually 

 made of grasses plucked green, which gives the 

 structure the fragrance of new hay. The eggs 

 are bluish white and spotted, but less irregularly 

 streaked than those of the Baltimore. 



