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ing a note or two, and darting into the lower branches to 
feed, and afterwards to rest. 
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 
Bobin, 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. 
Their principal food consists of caterpillars, beetles, and 
bugs, particularly one of a brilliant glossy green, fragments 
of which are almost always found in their stomach, and 
sometimes these only. 
The Baltimore inhabits North America from Canada to 
Mexico, and is even found as far south as Brazil. 
ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. 
There is nothing more remarkable (says Mr. Nuttall) in 
the whole instinct of our Golden Bobin, than the ingenuity 
displayed in the fabrication of its nest, which is, in fact, a 
pendulous cylindric pouch of five to seven inches in depth, 
usually suspended from near the extremities of the high, 
