$2 BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. 



common. May 15-July. N. Ohio, common S. R., Apl. 28- 

 Sept. 5. Glen Ellyn, not common S. R., Apl. 28. SE. Minn., 

 uncommon S. R., May 10-Aug. 26. 



In the northern part of its range, the Orchard Oriole is 

 somewhat less common, and more local than the Baltimore 

 Oriole, while its duller colors and more retiring habits make 

 is more difficult to see. The voice is richer, more cultured 

 — if one may use the term — than that of its brilliant 

 orange-plumed cousin; indeed, in my opinion, this species 

 deserves a place in the first rank of our songsters. The 

 nest of finely woven grasses is not so deep as that of 

 the Baltimore. Three to five bluish white eggs, spotted 

 and scrawled with black, are laid the latter part of May. 



BALTIMORE ORIOLE 

 Icterus galbula. Case 7, Figs. 8, 9 



The orange and black male needs no introduction; the female 

 is tinted with orange strongly enough to show her relationship. 

 L. 7*. 



Range. Eastern North America; nests from northern Georgia 

 to Canada; winters in the tropics. 



Washington, rather common S. R., Apl. 29-Aug. 26. Ossining, 

 common S. R., May 2-Sept. 1. Cambridge, very common S. R„ 

 May 8 through Aug. N. Ohio, common S. R., Apl. 15-Sept. 10. 

 Glen Ellyn, common S. R., Apl. 26-Sept. 4. SE. Minn., common 

 S. R., May i-Sept. 1. 



This is the orange-and-black whistler of our fruit and 

 shade trees, whose wife skillfully weaves a pendant cradle at 

 the end of some drooping branch, therein to lay her white 

 eggs curiously markeu with fine lines and blotches of 

 black. The young, after leaving the nest in June, have a 

 loud, babyish food-call, dee-dee-dee-dee, repeated time 

 after time until their wants are satisfied. 



RUSTY BLACKBIRD 

 Euphagus carolinus. Case 5, Figs. 3, 4 



The bird's common name is based on the fall plumage of the 

 male, which is broadly margined with rusty. By spring these 



