. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. ORCHARD ORIOLE. 43 ORCHARD ORIOLE. — ORIOLUS MUTATUS.— Figs. 11,12,13,14. Pcalf 1 IUuseitm,No. 1508. — Bastard Baltimore, CaicsAj/, i. 49. — Le Baltimore Batird, De Buffon, iii. i!33. PL enl. 506. — Oriolus Spurius, Gmelin, Syst. i. p. 389.—Lath. fiyn. ii. p. 433, 20, p. 4'?7, li. — Bartram, p. 290. ICTERUS SF ft/t/S. —Bonaparte. Icterus Spurius, Bonap. Synop. p. 5 .—The Orchard Oriole, Aud. i. 221, Ther
. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. ORCHARD ORIOLE. 43 ORCHARD ORIOLE. — ORIOLUS MUTATUS.— Figs. 11,12,13,14. Pcalf 1 IUuseitm,No. 1508. — Bastard Baltimore, CaicsAj/, i. 49. — Le Baltimore Batird, De Buffon, iii. i!33. PL enl. 506. — Oriolus Spurius, Gmelin, Syst. i. p. 389.—Lath. fiyn. ii. p. 433, 20, p. 4'?7, li. — Bartram, p. 290. ICTERUS SF ft/t/S. —Bonaparte. Icterus Spurius, Bonap. Synop. p. 5 .—The Orchard Oriole, Aud. i. 221, There are no circuinstatices, relating to birds, which tend so much to render their history obscure and perplexing, as the various changes of color winch many of tliem undergo. These changes are in some cases periodical; in others progressive ; and are irequently so extra- ordinary, that, unless tlio naturalist has resided for years in the country which the birds inhabit, and has examined them at almost every season, ho is extremely liable to be mistaken and imposed on by their novel appearance. Numerous instances of this kind mi^ht be cited, from the pages of European writers, in which the same bird has been described two, three, and even four dift'orent times, by the same poison, and each time as a different kind. Tiic species we are now about to examine is a remarkable example of this; and as it has never, to my knowledge, been either accurately figured or described, I have devoted one plate to the elucidation of its history. The Count de Buffon, in introducing what ho supposed to be the male of this bird, but which appears evidently to have been the female of the Baltimore Oriole, makes Iho following observations, which I give in tlie words of his translator: — "This bird is so called, (Spuri- ous Baltimore,) because the colors of its plumage are not so lively as in the preceding, [Baltimore O.) In fact, when we cornpaie these birds, and find an exact c
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