THE ORCHARD ORIOLE 
By WITMER STONE 
The National Association of Audubon Societies 
Educational Leaflet No. 42 
Several bird-voices are especially associated in my mind with the 
apple-orchard — the mournful cooing of the Dove, the monotonous call 
of the Wood Pewee, and the lively chant of the Orchard Oriole. 
The last is a song that at once attracts attention — a rapid series of 
clear notes, fairly tumbling over one another as they suddenly break 
NEST OF AN ORCHARD ORIOLE 
upon the ear, and stopping abruptly before we have discovered the per- 
former. It is a song that recalls in some respects that of the Warbling 
Vireo, while the rapid sequence of notes reminds one of the rollicking 
medley of the Bobolink. Compared with the song of the Baltimore 
Oriole it lacks strength and fullness of tone, but is much more delicate. 
The Orchard Oriole is a persistent singer, and during the nesting season 
his lively melody is heard continually, even during the heat of midday. 
Sometimes, like the Bobolink, he sings on the wing, but only when 
passing rapidly from one tree-top to another. 
He is not, as one might judge from his name, exclusively an inhabitant 
of the orchard, but is equally at home among the shade-trees about the 
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