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INSESSORES. 
American Orioles in the United States. Bullock’s 
Oriole, which enjoys a wide range upon the Pacific 
coast, from* California northward to the Columbia 
river, seems to fill the same position as that occupied 
to the eastward by the Baltimore Oriole, which it 
very much resembles in appearance as well as in its 
habits. 
The Orchard Oriole is a familiar occupant of our 
orchards and gardens in summer, where it renders 
signal service by ridding the fruit trees of hosts of 
worms and noxious insects and their larvae. It also 
suspends its neatly formed nest from the forks of 
some outspreading branch. It is not built in the 
pouch-like form we have before described, but looks 
more like a suspended cup, of insufficient capacity 
to conceal the body of the bird while sitting. It is 
a plainly colored bird ; in the male the breast and 
whole, lower parts, together with the rump, being of 
a rich chestnut-brown, and the remainder of the plu- 
mage black. I he female is plain olive on the upper 
parts, and a dingy yellow below. 
In point of nest-building we will now notice a 
bird of very different character; this is the Meadow 
Lark, a plain and humble species, seldom indulging 
in any wandering desires, not being gifted with any 
great powers of flight; its body being heavy and its 
wings short, and altogether unfitted for rapid motion. 
When it first rises from the ground, it flutters like a 
young bird until it rises fifteen or twenty feet in the 
air, when it pursues a bee-line course, with alternate 
sailings, and flutters until ready to alight, which is 
