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the larcre end, the blotches forming a rongh wreath about it. At 

 this end, too, there was a liint, in the faintest markings, of the 

 scrawl-like figures so characteristic of the eggs of many Orioles. 



" On March 23, the birds began building still another nest, and 

 laid in it before it was quite completed. On April 28, a young 

 Moriche Oriole hatched, and for the next two weeks both parents 

 kept busy feeding the young bird with insects. Most of these they 

 secured at the blossomino- cashew tree. While the bird? were in- 

 cubating they were rather silent, singing but seldom, and quite 

 w^ary, slipping away quietly whenever we appeared. During the 

 weeks of feeding, however, the constant labour was lightened with 

 frequent singing and both became exceedingly tame, quite regard- 

 less of our near presence. 



"On May 15, the young Moriche left the nest and with the 

 two parents disappeared. No sign of ihem was seen until a 

 month had passed, when on June 14 all three returned. Within 

 a day or two the old birds began overhauling one of the half- 

 finished nests and soon occupied it." 



Genus EUOPSAH Cass. 



Euopsar Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 18G7, p. 47. Tyj)e 

 E. croconotus (Wagl.). 



Fig. 211. — Euoj)i>ar croconotus. 



This genus is easily dislingnished by the elongated and lanceo- 

 lated feathers on the throat and fore-neck. The bill is compresed 

 and sharply jtointed ; its width and de})th attiie base are about the 

 same, wliich is equal to about half tlie length of the exposed cul- 

 men. The wing is rounded, the sccoml, tliird, fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth [irimaries are longest and sube(j[ua], and the first is about 



