. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. 174 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. ORCHARD ORIOLE. A. O. V. No- 506- (Icterus spurius) RANGE. United States chiefly east of the Great Plains, breeding throughout its United State range and north to southern Massachusetts and Min- nesota. Winters in central and northern South America. NEST AND EGGS. The nests of this species vary vastly in construction and in the method of attaching them to their supports in different sections of the country. They are usually quite bulky structures, never as deep or as pensile as those of the Baltimore Oriole; they are made
. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. 174 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. ORCHARD ORIOLE. A. O. V. No- 506- (Icterus spurius) RANGE. United States chiefly east of the Great Plains, breeding throughout its United State range and north to southern Massachusetts and Min- nesota. Winters in central and northern South America. NEST AND EGGS. The nests of this species vary vastly in construction and in the method of attaching them to their supports in different sections of the country. They are usually quite bulky structures, never as deep or as pensile as those of the Baltimore Oriole; they are made of long pieces of grass very skillfully woven together so as to form a hemispherical basket. As may be inferred from their names they frequent and nest most often in orchards either placing their nests in forks of the apple trees or sus- pending them from the rims. Their four to six eggs are bluish white, specked, scrawled and blotched with brown and lilac, usually showing but little of the lining common to the other species of HABITS These handsome Orioles are very abundant in the southern and middle portions of the United States, in many localities greatly outnumbering the Baltimore Oriole, the distribution of which is rather more northerly than the present variety. They are a great deal more active than the Baltimore Oriole and seem to be of a more nervous temperament for they are rarely still more than a few seconds at a time, being continually searching among the leaves or dashing out into the air after passing insects, stopping now and then to give voice to the loud and melodious whistling warble. Their song is very different from that of the Baltimore Oriole and is usually longer, louder and more varied but is sometimes intermingled with spontaneous outbursts of strange sounds similar to the song of the Yellow-breasted Chat. Most of these Orioles spend the winter in northern South America and in the spring migrate northwards, reaching the southern border of the
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