BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 
ICTERUS BALTIMORE. 
F the Baltimore oriole, every whit American, it is 
difficult to speak without seeming extravagance. 
He is the most beautiful of our spring visitors, has a 
rich and powerful voice, the rarest skill in nest-building, 
and is among the happiest, most jubilant of birds. The 
male generally arrives here a few days in advance of the 
female—the first week in May; though last spring 
(1884) I did not see the oriole till early on the morning 
of the 15th. He had just arrived, and determined to 
make up for lost time, he set the whole neighborhood 
ringing : — 
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Hardly a songster, the oriole is rather a tuneful caller, 
a musical shouter ; nevertheless, as will appear, he some- 
