CONCORD 
Hr 
1892 
July 5 
Brood of 
young 
Orioles 
Two young Orioles left the nest in the elm in 
front of the Buttricks’ on the 1st inst. but at least one 
of the brood still clung to it as late as the forenoon of 
the 3rd. They were all out yesterday but one remained in 
the tree last evening. This morning two were calling in 
an elm on the opposite side of the road and both parents 
were busily engaged in supplying them with food. The 
father went to the orchard but the mother, as long as I 
watched her, regularly flew down into the tall, 
English grass in Mr. Keyes’s field where, after perching 
on a weed head for a moment, she hopped down to the ground 
and was of course lost to view. As she came flying back 
I was struck by the tone of mingled anxiety and interro¬ 
gation of her low call. "Where? where?" she seemed to say. 
" Here - we - are", " Here we are" (falling inflection*) both 
young would promptly drawl in answer and then, as she 
^alighted near them, would repeat and extend this to*. 
Here-^ here 
•• - ■' 1 • Wc*" "‘"'" ’ "ffi' P 
—are, tnam- ma, — are, mam- ma". It really re¬ 
quired almost no imagination to fit these words to the calls 
in question and now that they have occurred to me the 
calling of young Orioles will no longer be to my ears, as 
it always has been, a disagreeable sound. 
* A week later when this call had become louder and 
mellower, it often bore a strong resemblance to the whistle 
of the Greater Yellow- leg, the form being almost exactly 
the same. 
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