GENUS 15. ORIOLUS.* 
SPECIES 1. ORIOLUS B^LTIMORUSA 
BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 
[Plate. 1. —Fig. 3. Male.] 
Linn. Syst. 1,/j. 162, 10. — Icterus minor, Briss. ii, p. 109, pL 12, 
jig. 1. — Le Baltimore, Buff, in , p - 231. PL Enl. 506 , jig. 1. — 
Baltimore Bird, Catesb. Car. 1, 48. — Arct. Zool. ii, p, 142. 
— Lath. Syn. ii, p. 432, 19. Bartram, p. 290. — Pealf.’s Mu- 
seum, JV’o. 1.506. 
This is a bird of passage, arriving in Pennsylvania, from the 
south, about the beginning of May, and departing towards the 
latter end of August, or beginning of September. From the 
singularity of its colours, the construction of its nest, and its 
preferring the apple-trees, weeping-willows, walnut and tulip- 
trees, adjoining the farm-house, to build on, it is generally 
known, and, as usual, honoured with a variety of names, such 
as Hang-nest, Hanging-bird, Golden Robin, Fire-bird (from 
the bright orange seen through the green leaves, resembling a 
flash of fire), &c. but more generally the Baltimore-bird, so 
named, as Catesby informs us, from its colours, which are black 
and orange, being those of the arms or livery of lord Baltimore, 
formerly proprietary of Maryland. 
The Baltimore Oriole is seven inches in length; bill almost 
straight, strong, tapering to a sharp point, black, and sometimes 
* This genus has been variously divided by modern ornitliologists. Tern* 
iTunck has separated it into foui' sections, viz. Cassicus, Quiscala, Icterus, and 
Emherizoides. The two species described by Wilson, belong to the thii-d section. 
Icterus. 
f Coracias Galbula, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, tom. 1, 108. — Oriolus Baltimore, Lath. 
Ind. Orn. 180. 
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