APPENDIX. 169 
ORIOLE. — Contin. 
same locality. In other words, since it is known that all the different in- 
dividuals of a species are not exactly alike, as though all were cast in the 
same die, as some naturalists appear to have believed.” — Allen, J. A.: 
Notes on some of the Rarer Birds of Mass. (Amer. Naturalist, vol. v., December, 
1869, pp. 509-510.) 
“Robins, song-sparrows, and perhaps all other birds sing differently 
from each other, so far as I have observed; but none differ so greatly, in 
my opinion, as orioles. The four that I have been able to study care- 
fully enough to reduce their song to the musical scale, though all hav- 
ing the same compass, arranged the notes differently in every case.” — 
Miller, O. T.: Bird-ways, pp. 119-120. 
“T bethink me now of two of these orioles, with whom I have been 
acquainted for several summers. I do not know them by their shares 
and plumes; I recognize them by their songs. During their sojourn 
here, which extends from May to October, they take up their residences 
within about a quarter of a mile of one another,—the one in a public 
park, the other in an orchard. And often have I heard the chief musi- 
cian of the orchard, on the top-most bough of an ancient apple-tree, sing : 
Rp 
— 
Li 
o im 
o—Ts 
to which the chorister of the park, from the summit of a maple, would 
respond, in the same key :—” 
O ft f fr ry 
See ee 
Munger, C. A.; Four American Birds. (Putnam’s Mag., N. 8. vol. iii, June, 
1869, p. 726.) 
Sone of FEMALE ORIOLE. 
Mr. Ingersoll remarks in “Friends Worth Knowing,” 
that the female oriole has a “ pretty song, which mingles 
with the brilliant tenor of the male during all the season 
of love-making.” When the little ladies in feathers get 
their due it will probably be admitted that the lord and 
masters of no family have all the song. 
