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it is true, while here, described and figured the Baltimore, and per- 

 haps was the first who published figm^es of either species ; but he 

 entirely omitted saying any thing of the female, and instead of the 

 male and female of the present species, as he thought, he has only 

 figured the male in two of his different dresses; and succeeding 

 compilers have followed and repeated the same error. Another 

 cause may be assigned, viz, the extreme shyness of the female Or- 

 chard Oriole, represented at fig. 1. This bird has hitherto escaped 

 the notice of European naturalists, or has been mistaken for ano- 

 ther species, or perhaps for a young bird of the first season, which 

 it almost exactly resembles. In none of the numerous works on 

 ornithology has it ever before appeared in its proper character; 

 tho the male has been known to Europeans for more than a cen- 

 tury, and has usually been figured in one of his dresses as male, and 

 in another as female; these varying according to the fluctuating 

 opinions of different writers. It is amusing to see how gentlemen 

 have groped in the dark in pairing these two species of Orioles, of 

 which the following examples may be given. 



Buffon's and Latham's iMale — Male Baltimore. 



Baltimore Oriole. ( Fejnale—Msile Orchard Oriole, fig. 4. 

 Spurious Baltimore of ( Male — Female Baltimore. 



Ditto. ( Fe?nale—M^\Q Orchard Oriole, fig. 2. 



Male — Male Baltimore. 

 Pennant's Baltimore O. i . 



remale — loung male Baltimore* 



yifofe— Male Orchard O. fig. 4. 



Female- — Ditto ditto, fig. 2. 



Male — Male Baltimore. 

 Catesby s Baltimore O. j . t 



Female- — Not mentioned. 



(.Ma/^— Male Orchard O. fig. 2. 

 Spurious B. of Ditto. 5 



( Female- — Ditto ditto, fig. 4. 



Among all these authors Catesby is doubtless the most inex* 

 cusable, having lived for several years in America, where he had 



Spurious O. of Ditto. 



