WHITE-BACKED, AND BALTIMORE ORIOLE.^ 257 



is as Fernandez aflerts, the difagreement in the different countries is 

 very wonderful. 



In Louifiana they appear only in winter, and are taken in a clap- 

 net, placed on each fide of a beaten path made on purpofe, and 

 ftrewed over with rice. As foon as the birds alight, the fowler draws 

 the net, and fometimes takes three hundred at a haul. They are alfo 

 eaten in the Englip colonies. Fernandez does not commend their 

 flefh, which, he fays, is unpalatable and unwholefome. 



Du Pratz fpeaks of two kinds : t'his, and another which is grey 

 and blackj. with a red- flioulder, like the fpecies in queftion. I fufpeft Young, or 

 he forms out of the young birds, not yet arrived at full color, a new 

 kind J or perhaps a female bird : for I have received from Dr. Gar~ 

 den one under that title, which agrees with the defcription given by 

 M. Du Pratz. Thefe are flreaked with pale rufty brown : cheeks 

 black : over each eye a white line : breaft and belly black, fpotted 

 with pale brown : leffer coverts of the wings rich orange. 



White-backed Maize Thieves, ^<j/zaj ii. 274. ' I41. White- 



backed. 



* Species mentioned barely as above by Mr. Kalnty with the addi- 



^^ tion of their being lefs than the laft : that they fing finely, 



and appeared flying now and then among the bulhes near Saratoga ; 



but that he faw them for the firfl: time near New Tork, As Mr. Kalm Place. 



feems not to have had a diftin£t fight of thefe birds, it is poffible that 



they are the White-winged Orioles af Mr. Latham, ii. 440: the 



coverts of whofe wings are white ; the reft of the, plumage entirely 



black. His fpecies came from Cayenne., 



Baltimore bbd, C<j/5%, i; 48.^ — -Latbamti: /[^z, 142* Baltimore, 



Le Baltimore, Brijfan, 11. 109. — De Bufon, i'li. 2^1, — PI. Enl.^cS,' 

 Oriolus Baltimore, Lin. Syft. 162. — Bl. M us.— Lev. Mus. 



o. 



With the head, throat, neck, and upper part of the back, black : Male. 

 leffer coyerts of the wings orange j the greater black tipt 



1^ 1 with 



