ORCilAUD ORIOLK. 
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Jfig'htly, and- restless bird, he is oil the ground— on 
j 6 trees — hying and carolling in his hurried manner, 
almost one and the same instant. His notes are shrill 
lively, but uttered with siicli rapidity, and seeming 
^tifusion, that the ear is unable to follow them dis- 
®ctly. Between these, he has a single note, which is 
ISfeeable and interesting. Wherever he is protected. 
shews his conhdeiiee and gratitude by his^ numbers 
^•1 familiarity. In the botanic gardens of niy worthy 
*•1 scientific friends, the Messrs Bartraiiis of Kingsess, 
aich present an epitome of almost every thing that is 
useful, and beautiful in the vegetable kingdom of 
Western coiitiueut, and ivhere the murderous gun 
i_’^ce ever intrudes, the orchard oriole revels without 
ll^lraint through thickets of aromatic flowers and 
l'‘®tsoms, and, heedless of the busy gardener that labours 
'“low.hangs his nest, in perfect security, on the branches 
his head. 
0 The female sits fourteen days ; the young remain in 
nest ten days afterwai'iLs, before they venture 
''Oad, which is generally about the middle of June, 
of this species, with eggs, are sometimes found so 
as the-20th of July, which must either belong to 
^*1 many of them raise two brood of young in the 
season, though 1 am not positive of the fact. 
Ij/he orchard orioles arrive in Pennsylvania rather 
than the Baltimores, commonly about the first 
in May, aud extend as far as the province of 
3'ne. They are also more numerous towards the 
,.J’*'ntains than the latter species. In traversing the 
1 near the Blue ridge, in the mouth of August, 
seen at least five of this species for one of the 
1 ,^'more. Early in September, they take their de- 
^PUre for the south; their term of residence here 
i|,. '*S little more than four months. Previous to their 
harture, the young birds become greprious, and fre- 
lief’'’' rich e.Ytensive meadows of the Schuylkill, 
iiji Philadelphia, in flocks of from thirty to forty, or 
'tvds. They are easily raised from the nest, and 
