Weaver-birds Oriole. 1 8 1 



most other beautiful birds, they are more nume- 

 rous in Brazil and other warm countries of 

 South America than in the United States. 

 There are about four hundred species of hum- 

 ming-birds. 



15. Audubon, the celebrated American ornithologist, 

 in describing the humming-bird, called it the " glittering 

 fragment of the rainbow." 



1 6. There is a bird that knows how to sew, and 

 is therefore called the tailor-bird. He sews 



leaves together and thus 

 forms his nest. Others 

 take long grass or any 

 other fibrous material, and 

 weave it into a kind of 

 coarse cloth, of which 

 they make their nests. 



17. We have one of 

 these weaver-birds in 

 our country. It is called 

 the BALTIMORE ORIOLE, 

 a beautiful bird covered 

 with orange and black 

 feathers. 



1 8. This nest, as you 

 see (referring to the 

 drawing on the black- 

 Blackboard drawing of Baiti- board), is not only 



more Oriole. Full lengrth of . 



bird, 74 inches. strongly woven together, 



