BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. 



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Fio. 78. 



-Orchara OriolP. dm., i, second 

 year.) (Natural size.) 



Similar to the nd. 9 , but witli tlic back browner. Im. 8 , second year.— Simi- 

 lar to the m\. 9 , i)ut with tiie tiirout black and occasioually patches of chest- 

 nut on tiie under parts. L., 7"3;i; 

 W., 3-18 ; T., li'.fi ; H., -05. 



A'a«f/('.— Kastern North Amer- 

 ica; breeds from the Gulf States 

 to Mas(<aehusettrt and Ontario, 

 and winters in Central America. 



Washinjrton, eominon S. R., 

 A pi. '-'s to Sept. Sini^ Sinjr, com- 

 mon S. K.. May 2 to Aug. ti. Cam- 

 bridfj^e, S. K., sometimes ratiier 

 common, May 15 to July. 



3V'.v^, pensile, of (^trasses inter- 

 woven, near the extremity of a 

 limb, ten to fifteen feet up. /;y.'/'') 

 three to five, l)luish white, dis- 

 tinctly and obscurely spotted, blotched, and scrawled with fuscous or black, 

 •7'J X -oS. 



Although the Orchard Oriole generally frequents apple orchards, 

 he is entirely at home among the sluide trees of our lawns. 



Tliere is an air of refiiieuient about this bird which seems to per- 

 vade his whole life liistory. lie dresses quietly but with excellent 

 taste, his nest is of the choicest materials, while liis song suggests the 

 finished effort of a perfectly trained ijerformer. Ilis voice is indeed 

 unusually rich and flexible, and he uses it with rare skill and expres- 

 sion. Words can not describe his song, but no lover of bird-music 

 will be long in the vicinity of a singing Orchard Oriole without learn- 

 ing the distinguished songster's name. 



607. Icterus galbula (f.lnn.). Bai.timohe Ouiole; Firebird; 

 Golden Kouin ; Hano-nest. Ad. i . — Head, neek, tiiroat, and upper back 

 black ; breast, belly, lower back, and lesser w ing-ooverts deep, rich, reddish 

 orange ; wings blaek, the outer margin of the greater coverts and quills edged 

 with white ; eiul iialf of middle tail-feathers Idaek, base orange; all the others 

 orange, crossed by a black band in the middle. Ad. 9 .—Upper parts brown- 

 ish or grayish orange, brighter on the rump ; head and back mottled with 

 black; wings fuscous, greater and middle coverts ti[)ped with white; tail 

 like the rump, the middle feathers stained with black; under parts dull 

 orange, throat sometimes spotted with blaek. L., 7'53; W., .'?-52; T., 2-84; 

 B., TO. 



/I'ljwf/e.— Eastern North America; breeds from the Gulf States to New 

 Brunswick; winters in Central Ameriea. 



Washington, rather common S. K., Apl. 28 to Sept. Sing Sing, common 

 S. R., May 2 to Sept. 1. Cambridge, very common S. R., May 8 through Aug. 



Nest.1 pensile, of grasses, bark, plant fibers, liair, strings, etc., firmly inter- 

 woven, in fruit or shade trees, near the extremity of a limb twenty to forty 



