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orange from the middle to the tips; and the two next juft tipped 

 with orange : legs and claws black. 



The female, according to Bnffon, has all the fore parts of a fine Female, 

 black, like the male: tail the fame: wing coverts and quills 

 blackifh : and thofe parts, which are of a fine orange in the male, 

 are in the female of a dull red. 



Baltimore Birds are found in many parts of America, the Place and 

 northern parts of which they occupy in fttmmer, being feen fome- 

 times as far as Montreal, in Canada, where they come in May ; re- 

 turning fouthward in the winter, which accounts for their being 

 feen in Maryland and Virginia at that time. They make the neft 

 of a foft downy matter, in the fhape of a purfe, tying it with 

 threads to the very extreme forked twigs of the tulip, plane^znd 

 hiccory trees ; in which they lay their eggs, and rear thei-r young, 

 free from depredators of all kinds. 



They are called Fire-birds by the country people ; and indeed, 

 when in high plumage, their motions from branch to branch not 

 unaptly referable a flafh qf fire. 



Oriolus fpurius, Lin. Syft.i, p. 162. N° li» ' 20 , 



Le Baltimore Ballard, Brif. orn. ii. p. in. N 6 20. pi. 10. f. $.—Buf. otf. +- BASTARD 



iii. N° 233. — PL enl. 506. f. 2. 

 Baftard Baltimore, Catejb. Car. i. .pi. 49. — Amer. Zool. N° 



BALTIMORE 

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^CIZE of the true Baltimore, but meafures a trifle lefs in length. Description. 



Bill lead-colour : forehead and cheeks black and yellowifh 

 •mixed: hind head and nape olive grey, marked with a few fpots 

 of black : the upper part of the back the fame, but more dull ; 

 ^the lower part of the back> the rump, fore part of the neck, 



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