BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 
(Le/terus gal/bula.\ 
AMED from the title of Sir George Calvert, first Baron 
of Baltimore, whose colors were orange and black. 
Head, neck and back, black; wings, black, edged and 
tipped with white; middle tail coverts, black; other tail and all 
other parts, fiery orange; bill and feet, blue black; length, 7.50 
to 8 inches. 
Female, smaller and paler, more olive than black; nest, a 
deftly woven fabric, hanging in the very tops of shade trees; 
eggs, four to six, shaded white, spotted and scrawled with blackish 
brown, and other heavy markings. 
One of our most beautiful birds, as well as a fine and con- 
stant singer during the breeding season. United States and 
British Provinces. Migratory. 
Another boy volunteered the following informa- 
tion concerning 
THE ORIOLE. 
This bird has a diversity of gifts. He is not only 
one of the most brilliant in plumage, and has one of 
the brightest songs, but he claims a place in the front 
rank of nest builders. His custom is to weave a purse- 
like nest, from three to six inches deep, fastened high 
up to slender swaying twigs; but he has been known 
to make a shallow basket-shaped nest on the top of a 
horizontal limb. Such a nest he builds lower, among 
the leaves. 
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