. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Bird Study 125. THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE Teacher's Story "I know his name, I know Ms note, That so with rapture takes my soul; Like flame the gold beneath his throat, His glossy cope is black as coal. O Oriole, it is the song You sang me from the cottonwood, Too young to feel that I was young, Too glad to guess if life were ; âWilliam Dean Howells. ANGLING from the slender, drooping branches of the elm in winter, these pocket nests look like some strange persistent fruit; a
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Bird Study 125. THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE Teacher's Story "I know his name, I know Ms note, That so with rapture takes my soul; Like flame the gold beneath his throat, His glossy cope is black as coal. O Oriole, it is the song You sang me from the cottonwood, Too young to feel that I was young, Too glad to guess if life were ; âWilliam Dean Howells. ANGLING from the slender, drooping branches of the elm in winter, these pocket nests look like some strange persistent fruit; and, indeed, they are the fruit of much labor on the part of the oriole weavers, those skilled artisans of the bird world. Sometimes the oriole "For the summer voyage his hammock swings" in a sapling, placing â it near the main stem and near the top, otherwise it is almost invariably hung at the end of branches and is rarely less than twenty feet from the ground. The nest is pocket-shaped, and usually about seven inches long, and four and a half inches wide at the largest part, which is the bottom. The top is attached to forked twigs at the Y so that the mouth or door will be kept open to allow the bird to pass in and out; when within, the weight of the bird causes the opening to contract somewhat and protects the inmate from prying eyes. Often the pocket hangs free so that the breezes may rock it, but in one case we found a nest with the bottom stayed to a twig by guy lines. The bottom is much more closely woven than the upper part for a very good reason, since the open meshes admit air to the sitting bird. The nest is lined with hair ^r other soft material, and although this is added last, the inside of the nest is woven first. The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvellous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted; in and oUo of this net the mother bird with her long, sharp beak weaves bits of wood fibre
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