ORCHARD ORIOLE. 
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sprightly, and restless bird, he is on the ground — on 
the trees — flying and carolling in his hurried manner, 
in almost one and the same instant. His notes are shrill 
and lively, but uttered with such rapidity, and seeming 
confusion, that the ear is unable to follow them dis- 
tinctly. Between these, he has a single note, which is 
agreeable and interesting. Wherever he is protected, 
he shews his confidence and gratitude by his numbers 
and familiarity. In the botanic gardens of my worthy 
and scientific friends, the Messrs Bartrams of Kingsess, 
which present an epitome of almost every thing that is 
rare, useful, and beautiful in the vegetable kingdom of 
this western continent, and where the murderous gun 
scarce ever intrudes, the orchard oriole revels without 
restraint through thickets of aromatic flowers and 
blossoms, and, heedless of the busy gardener that labours 
below, hangs his nest, in perfect security, on the branches 
over his head. 
The female sits fourteen days ; the young remain in 
the nest ten days afterwards, before they venture 
abroad, which is generally about the middle of June, 
Nests of this species, with eggs, are sometimes found so 
late as the 20th of July, which must either belong to 
birds that have lost their first nest, or, it is probable, 
that many of them raise two brood of young in the 
same season, though I am not positive of the fact. 
The orchard orioles arrive in Pennsylvania rather 
later than the Baltimore s, commonly about the first 
week in May, and extend as far as the province of 
Maine. They are also more numerous towards the 
mountains than the latter species. In traversing the 
country near the Blue ridge, in the month of August, 
I have seen at least five of this species for one of the 
Baltimore. Early in September, they take their de- 
parture for the south ; their term of residence here 
being little more than four months. Previous to their 
departure, the young birds become gregarious, and fre- 
quent the rich extensive meadows of the Schuylkill, 
below Philadelphia, in flocks of from thirty to forty, or 
upwards. They are easily raised from the nest, and 
