

ScBGExus YPHANTES Vieillot. 

 ICTERUS GALBULA (Lixn.). 



207. Baltimore Oriole. (507) 



2fale : — With head and neck all round, and the back, black ; rump, upper 

 tail coverts, lesser wing coverts, most of the tail feathers, and 'all the under 

 parts from the throat, fiery-orange, but of varying intensity according to age 

 and season ; middle tail feathers, black ; tlie middle and greater coverts and 

 inner quills, more or less edged and tipped with white, but the white on the 

 coverts not forming a continuous patch ; bill and feet, blue-black. Length, 

 TJ-S ; tail, .3. Frmah : — Smaller, and much paler, the black oliscured by olive, 

 sometimes entireh' wanting. Young.- — Entirely without the black on throat 

 and head, otherwise colored nearly like the female. 



H.\B. — Eastern United States, west nearly to the Rooky Mountains. 



Xest, purse shaped, pensile, about six inches deep, composetl chieflv of 

 vegetable filjre, with whicli is often intertwisted rags, paper, thread, twine 



