50 THE ORCHARD ORIOLE, OR HANG-NEST. 



Orchard Oriole, Oriolus mutatus, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. i. p. 64. 

 Icterus spurids, Bonap. Syn., p. 51. 



Spdrious or Orchard Oriole, Icterus spurius, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 165. 

 Orchard Oriole, Icterus spurius, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 221; vol. v. p. 485. 



Male, 61, 9. 



From Texas to Connecticut, over the valley of the Mississippi, Kentucky, 

 and Ohio. Abundant. Rare in Massachusetts and Maine. Missouri to the 

 bases of the Rocky Mountains. Migratory. 



Male in complete plumage. 



Bill conical, slender, longish, compressed, a little curved, very acute, with 

 inflected acute margins; upper mandible obtuse above, lower broadly obtuse 

 beneath. Nostrils oval, covered by a membrane above, basal. Head and 

 neck of ordinary size. Body rather slender. Feet of ordinary length; tarsus 

 a little longer than the middle toe; inner toe little shorter than the outer; 

 claws arched, compressed, acute, that of the hind toe twice the size of the 

 others. 



Plumage soft, blended, glossy. Wings of ordinary length, the second and 

 third primaries longest. Tail long, rounded, of twelve rounded feathers. 



Bill black above, with light blue margins, light blue beneath. Iris reddish- 

 brown. Feet light blue. Head, neck, and upper back black; the rest of 

 the body dusky orange-red, approaching to chestnut. Quills and larger 

 coverts black, margined with yellow, the latter tipped with yellowish-white; 

 tail black. 



Length 6^ inches, extent of wings 9; bill along the ridge T 7 2, along the 

 gap f ; tarsus 1, middle toe §-. 



Adult Female. 



Bill, feet and iris as in the male. Head and upper parts brownish-green. 

 Wings and tail greenish-brown; wing-coverts tipped with white; throat 

 white, sides of the neck and under parts generally greyish-yellow. The 

 young of both sexes resemble the female. 



Male in the second year. 



Irregularly spotted with black, yellow, and reddish-orange on the head, 

 neck, and back; the other parts nearly as in the adult male. 



The Honey Locust. 



Gleditschia triacanthos, Willd., Sp. PL, vol. iv. p. 1097. Pursh, Flor. Amer., vol. i. 

 j). 221. Mich., Arbr. Forest., vol. iii. p. 164, pi. 10.— Polygamia Diozcia, Linn.— Legc- 

 MIN08.E, Juss. 



This tree, when growing in situations most favourable to it, sometimes 



