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The orchard oriole’s nest is of simpler construction 
than that of the other species. Some that I have 
found were made wholly of pine-needles, and were 
placed in the upper branches of tall Weymouth pines. 
Other nests in deciduous trees were made wholly of 
flexible grasses neatly interwoven, but all were cups, 
and not deep at that. 
During the summer the birds are not associated, 
although I have known an “ Orchard” and a “ Balti- 
more” to have nests in the same tree; but the young 
of the former and of the latter are found together 
prior to their autumnal flight to warmer regions. 
The Rusty Grakle, or Blackbird, is a migrant only 
in the Middle States, coming in March and reappear- 
ing in October, and in the latter month we can always 
find an abundance of them in the tide-water marshes 
of the Delaware. Their summer home is in Northern 
New England and Canada. 
Brewer’s Blackbird is a Western species found from 
“Eastern Kansas and Minnesota to the Pacific.” 
Dr. Coues says of them,— 
“Several kinds of Blackbirds are abundant in Arizona, but the 
present surpasses them all in numbers. . . . They are eminently 
gregarious when not breeding.” 
We have now to briefly consider a bird as familiar 
to us all as the crow, and that is the Crow-blackbird, 
or preferably the Purple Grakle. They are both 
resident and migratory in the Middle States and resi- 
dent southward. In New England the bird appears 
to be replaced by the Bronzed Grakle that is found 
west of the Alleghanies. The Grakle of the Middle 
States is purple when seen in the hand, and has an 
