. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . 298 BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. Nest. — Long, bag-shaped, hung- from the rim, usually to slenderbranches 8 to 50 feet from the ground; woven of hemp, horsehair, ortwine, lined largely with hair and grass. Eggs: 4 to 0, grayish, irregu-larly streaked and blotched, most heavily about the larger end, with black,brown, and lavender. Food. — Mainly noxious insects and larvae, including click beetles,locusts, grasshoppers, weevils, ants, plant lice, and caterpillars.
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . 298 BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, ETC. Nest. — Long, bag-shaped, hung- from the rim, usually to slenderbranches 8 to 50 feet from the ground; woven of hemp, horsehair, ortwine, lined largely with hair and grass. Eggs: 4 to 0, grayish, irregu-larly streaked and blotched, most heavily about the larger end, with black,brown, and lavender. Food. — Mainly noxious insects and larvae, including click beetles,locusts, grasshoppers, weevils, ants, plant lice, and caterpillars. The Baltimore oriole goes as far west as Colorado and Montana,but buUocki, its western congener, is more abundant west of thePlains. 508. Icterus bullocki (Sicains.). Bullock Oriole. Adult male in summer. — Under parts, sides of head and neck, and su-perciliary orange; narrow throat patch, crown, back of neck, back, and stripe through eye, black;wings with conspicuous whitepatch and edgings ; tail withmiddle feathers black, chan-ging to almost pure yellow onouter feathers. Adult malein winter : like summer male,but scapular
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