. Our birds in their haunts [microform] : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. Birds; Oiseaux. THE ORCHARD ORIOLE. 245 THE ORCHARD ORIOLE. Very similar in form and marking, but of a different color and smaller, is the Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius). Some seven inches long, and having nearly the same parts black as the Baltimore, except that the tail is entirely black, the male has those parts corresponding to the orange in the latter—chestnut, or chestnut-red. The female is olivaceous above, with dusky wings, and greenish-yellow beneath. The young male is like her the fi
. Our birds in their haunts [microform] : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. Birds; Oiseaux. THE ORCHARD ORIOLE. 245 THE ORCHARD ORIOLE. Very similar in form and marking, but of a different color and smaller, is the Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius). Some seven inches long, and having nearly the same parts black as the Baltimore, except that the tail is entirely black, the male has those parts corresponding to the orange in the latter—chestnut, or chestnut-red. The female is olivaceous above, with dusky wings, and greenish-yellow beneath. The young male is like her the first year, the second year he acquires a black throat, the third year is variously spotted, and afterwards acquires the dark colors of maturity. Resid- ing in Orleans County, N. Y., I am a little too far north for this bird, but in Northern Ohio, where I formerly studied him, he is very common, being found in every orchard. Arriving there about the middle of May, his song is a loud and delightful warble, bearing a striking resemblance to that of the Robin or Rose-breasted Grosbeak. The female is so shy as seldom to be seen. The nest, hung by the upper edge to a limb in the orchard, is nearly hemispherical, built of tough grasses thoroughly interwoven. Wilson says: " I had the curiosity to detach one of the fibers, or stalks of dried grass, from the nest, and found it to measure thirteen inches in length, and in that distance was thirty-four times hooked through and returned, winding round and round the ; He says, also: "An old lady of my acquaint- ance, to whom I was one day showing this curious fabrica- tion, after admiring, its texture for some time asked me, in a tone between joke and earnest, whether I did not think it possible to teach these birds to darn ; This nest, being built of grasses so recently dried as still to retain their green color, about like that of new-mown hay, has a peculiarly fresh and clear appearance. The Orioles pro
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