. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. 240 Baltimore Oriole. The plumage of the male when full grown is very brilliant. The head, throat, and back are black, the under parts are orange, the breast vermilion. A band of orange passes over the shoulders, and the tail is orange and black. The length of the bird is almost eight inches. This is not the only bird that constructs pensile nests; the weaver birds also form these nests, but of a differen
. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. 240 Baltimore Oriole. The plumage of the male when full grown is very brilliant. The head, throat, and back are black, the under parts are orange, the breast vermilion. A band of orange passes over the shoulders, and the tail is orange and black. The length of the bird is almost eight inches. This is not the only bird that constructs pensile nests; the weaver birds also form these nests, but of a different form. They look like great pistols hung up by the butt, the entrance being at the muzzle, and the nest in the butt. 29. The Common Starung is a bird well known both for its beauty and the HUgular method of flight. When a flock of Starlings begin to settle for the night, they wheel round the place selected with great accuracy. Suddenly, as if by word of command, the whole flock turn their sides to the spectator, and with a great whirring of wings, the whole front and shape of the flock is altered. No body of soldiers could be better wheeled or countermarched than are these flocks of starlings, except, perhaps, an iinfortunate few, who are usually thrown out at each change, and whom we must chari- tably suppose to be recruits. 80. The Starling lives principally among old buildings, and is very fond of gaining admittance into dovecotes, where it is a harmless visitor, and may be suffered to remain without detriment to the pigeons oi their eggs. Its nest is made usually in a hole in a wall, sometimes in a decayed tree, and contains five eggs of a veiy delicate uniformly pale blue. 31. There is never any difficulty in dis- covering the nest of the Starling, for if it builds in a hole of a wall it generally leaves several straws sticking out, as if to indi- cate the locality; and when it goes to take food to its young, both. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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