. Birds & nature. Birds; Natural history. THE BALTIMORE ALTIMORE Orioles are in- habitants of the whole of North America, from Can- ada to Mexico. They enter Louisiana as soon as spring commences there. The name of Baltimore Oriole has been given it, because its colors of black and orange are those of the family arms of Lord Baltimore, to whom Maryland formerly belonged. Tradition has it that George Calvert, the first Baron Balti- more, worn out and discouraged by the various trials and rigours of tem- perature experienced in his Newfound- land colony in 1628, visited the Vir- gin
. Birds & nature. Birds; Natural history. THE BALTIMORE ALTIMORE Orioles are in- habitants of the whole of North America, from Can- ada to Mexico. They enter Louisiana as soon as spring commences there. The name of Baltimore Oriole has been given it, because its colors of black and orange are those of the family arms of Lord Baltimore, to whom Maryland formerly belonged. Tradition has it that George Calvert, the first Baron Balti- more, worn out and discouraged by the various trials and rigours of tem- perature experienced in his Newfound- land colony in 1628, visited the Vir- ginia settlement. He explored the waters of the Chesapeake, and found the woods and shores teeming with birds, among them great flocks of Orioles, which so cheered him by their beauty of song and splendor of plum- age, that he took them as good omens and adopted their colors for his own. When the Orioles first arrive the males are in the majority; they sit in the spruces calling by the hour, with lonely querulous notes. In a few days however, the females appear, and then the martial music begins, the birds' golden trumpeting often turning to a desperate clashing of cymbals when two males engage in combat, for "the Oriole has a temper to match his flam- ing plumage and fights with a ; This Oriole is remarkably familiar, and fearless of man, hanging its beau- tiful nest upon the garden trees, and even venturing into the street wher- ever a green tree flourishes. The materials of which its nest is made are flax, various kinds of vegetable fibers, wool, and hair, matted together so as to resemble felt in consistency. A number of long horse-hairs are passed completely through the fibers, sewing it firmly together with large and irreg- ular, but strong and judiciously placed stitching. In one of these nests an observer found that several of the hairs used for this purpose measured two feet in length. The nest is in the form of a long purse, six or seven inches in depth, t
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