. Bird life stories, comp. from the writings of Audubon, Bendire, Nuttall, and Wilson . rom its showy plumage, its sprightly and pleasingways, its familiarity with man, and the immense amount ofgood it does by the destruction of many noxious insects andtheir larvee, including hairless caterpillars, spiders cocoons,etc., it naturally and deservedly endears itself to every truelover of the beautiful in nature. Only a short-sighted churlor an ignorant fool would begrudge one of these birds the fewgreen peas and berries it may help itself to while in fully earns all it takes, and more, t
. Bird life stories, comp. from the writings of Audubon, Bendire, Nuttall, and Wilson . rom its showy plumage, its sprightly and pleasingways, its familiarity with man, and the immense amount ofgood it does by the destruction of many noxious insects andtheir larvee, including hairless caterpillars, spiders cocoons,etc., it naturally and deservedly endears itself to every truelover of the beautiful in nature. Only a short-sighted churlor an ignorant fool would begrudge one of these birds the fewgreen peas and berries it may help itself to while in fully earns all it takes, and more, too, and especiallydeserves the fullest protection of every agriculturist. The Baltimore Oriole usually arrives in the southern NewEngland States, in central New York, and Minnesota, witha most invariable regularity about May loth, rarely varying aweek from this date. It arrives correspondingly earlier orlater farther south or north. About this time the trees havecommenced to leaf, and many of the orchards are in bloom,so that their arrival coincides with the loveliest time of the 50. BALTIMORE ORIOLEIcterus p-albula The Balthnore Oriole 5/ year. The males usually precede the females by two or threedays to their breeding grounds, and the same site is frequentlyoccupied for several seasons. It is very much attached to alocality when once chosen for a home and is loath to leave it. Few birds are more devoted to each other than theseOrioles, and I am of the opinion that they remain mated throughlife. Their favorite haunts in our eastern States are found inrather open country, along the roads bordered with shade|i trees, creek bottoms, orchards and the borders of small[timbered tracts. It is equally at home in villages or cities ofconsiderable size as long as they furnish suitaljle trees fornesting sites. It shuns swampy and marshy tracts and exten-sive forests; A very peculiar note, a long-drawn-out chattering, chae,chae, chae, is apt to draw ones attention to it on its firstarriva
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