ORIOLE. 115 



branch of a tree, not unfrequenlly near habitations, and by this 

 precaution it is safe from the plunder of other animals. One kept 

 tame at Lady Emily Macleod's, fed on any vegetable diet ; was fond 

 of the kernels of apples, and opened mils given to it, without difficulty, 

 for the sake of the contents. 



27— BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 



Oriolus Baltimore, Ind. Orn. i. 180. Lin. i. 1G2. Gm. Lin. i. 389. Borowsck. ii. 



115. t. 11. Spalowsk. Vog. t. 4. Share's Zool. vii. 425. 

 Icterus Baltimore, Daml. ii. 348. 



minor, Bris. ii. 109. t. 12. f. 1. Id. Svo. i. 186. Klein. Av. p. 68. 



Le Baltimore, Buf. iii. 231. PI. enl. 506. 1. 



Baltimore Oriole, Gen. Syn. ii. 432. Arct. Zool. ii. 142. pi. 12. Cat. Car. i; pi. 48. 



Bartr. Tr. p. 2S8. Gent. Mag. xxiii. pi. p. 180: Amer. Orn. i. pi. 1. f. 3.— male. 



Id. pi. 53. f. 4.— female. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill lead-colour; head, neck, and upper 

 parts of the body black ; the rest of the body orange; also the bend 

 of the wing and the lesser coverts ; rest of the wing dirty brown ; 

 greater coverts and quills black, the first tipped with white, making 

 a bar on the wing ; the last margined with white ; the two middle 

 tail feathers black, in shape somewhat forked, yet the outer feather 

 is a quarter of an inch shorter than the others, so as to appear doubly 

 rounded ; the four outer feathers are orange from the middle to the 

 tips, the next just tipped with the same; legs black. 



The female has the head and back olive, edged with pale brown ; 

 wing coverts the same, with a bar of white ; under parts, and tail 

 coverts yellow ; tail dusky, edged with yellow. 



Inhabits various parts of North America, often in flocks ; 

 migrating as far as Montreal to the North, and to Brazil on the 

 South • most common in Virginia, The nest loosely constructed, of 



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