The Oologist. 



Vol. XXIII. No. 6. 



Albion, N. Y., June, 1906. 



Whole No. 227 



THE OOLOGIST, 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXI- 



DEEMY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, 



ALBION, N. Y. 



ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager. 



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California's Two Orioles. 



Icterus cucullatus nelsoni (Ridgeway) 

 Icterus bullocki (Swainson). 



In the back yard of the 50 x 100 

 foot lot on which I live in the city of 

 Los Angeles, California, there is a 



huge weeping willow tree. Directly 

 on the opposite side of the lot there- 

 is a fig tree which bears heavily each 

 year. Because of these two things 

 the orioles, at lesat a pair of them, 

 come to visit me each season. They 

 are of the Arizona Hooded variety 

 and they came this spring on the 14th 

 clay of March, an early record. 



Today, they have a nest in the 

 weeping willow, and, while I have not 

 investigated it, I know exactly where 

 it is, and its presence, as well as the 

 vivid-colored birds flashing past my 

 window has roused in me memories 

 of other days when I knew the tribe 

 of Icterus better than I do just now. 



In Southern California there are 

 two well-known species of these 

 birds: the one just mentioned and 

 Bullock's oriole; while some give 

 Scott's oriole as also being a casual 

 visitor in this neck of the woods. In 

 settled sections, where there are 

 many palm and banana trees, the 

 hooded oriole is the most abundant; 

 among the groves of eucalyptus and 

 pepper trees, and in the sycamores 

 back in the hills, the western sub- 

 species of the Baltimore oriole is 

 everywhere found, replacing the 

 hooded. Both arrive from the south 

 about the same time — somewhere be- 

 tween the middle of March and the 

 first of April, but Bullock's leaves 

 before the hooded, at least my obser- 

 vations during the past ten years 

 seem to indicate that this is the case. 

 September first usually sees the last 

 of the "common" orioles, while the 

 hooded aristocrats frequently remain 

 until well on into October, though 



