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BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 
Oriolus Baltimore, 
Le Baltimore. 
Baltimore. 
Baltimore Oriole. 
Lin . Systm i. p • 162. 
J 3 ris. Oni . ii. p • 109. Siif • 3. p* 23 I 
Ztffl/. jP. 2 . />>• 3 0 2. 
Lath . i. /. 2. p. 43 2. 
This subject is reduced on tbe Plate, the length of the species being 
seven inches. They inhabit many parts of America, from Carolina to Ca- 
nada, occupying the northern districts in the summer, and returning 
southward in the winter. 
In some places they are, from the brilliancy of their colour, called Fire- 
Birds, and Fire hang-nests, their nest being formed in the shape of a pear, 
open at the top, with a hole at the side, through which the young receive 
their food, and discharge their excrements. 
This nest is formed of a soft downy matter, mixed with wool, woven and 
lined with hair, and generally supported by two small shoots, which enter 
the sides of the nest ; and it is commonly suspended to the forked branches 
of the tulip, poplar, and hiccory tree, to which it is fastened with the fila- 
ments of some tough plant; and after being thus placed, is perfectly secure 
from depredations of every kind. 
The bill is of a lead colour; the head, the throat, the neck, and the upper 
part of the back is black; the greater coverts black tipped with white; the 
quills black, margined with white; the two middle feathers of the tail are 
likewise black ; the rest of the plumage of a most splendid yellow, height- 
ened with orange. 
It leceives the name of Baltimore from some resemblance, in the distri- 
bution of the colours of its plumage, to the arms of Lord Baltimore, who ob- 
tained the grant of Maryland. 
