. Bird-lore . ., before planting his maize, so does the prudent gardener wait forthe first call of the Oriole before she trusts her cellar-wintered geraniumsand lemon balms once more to the care of mother earth. This Oriole has history blended with his name; for it isand Identt ^^^^ ^^^^ George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, tired anddiscouraged by many of the troubles of his Newfoundlandcolony, in visiting the Virginia settlement in 1628, explored the waters of theChesapeake, where he found the shores and woods alive with birds, and, con-spicuous among them, vasts fiocks of Orioles. These
. Bird-lore . ., before planting his maize, so does the prudent gardener wait forthe first call of the Oriole before she trusts her cellar-wintered geraniumsand lemon balms once more to the care of mother earth. This Oriole has history blended with his name; for it isand Identt ^^^^ ^^^^ George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, tired anddiscouraged by many of the troubles of his Newfoundlandcolony, in visiting the Virginia settlement in 1628, explored the waters of theChesapeake, where he found the shores and woods alive with birds, and, con-spicuous among them, vasts fiocks of Orioles. These so pleased him that hetook their colors for his own and they ever afterward bore his name—a fairexchange. The Baltimore Oriole comes of a parti-colored American family—Icter-idas—that to the eye of the uninitiated at least would appear to be a hybridclan drawn from all quarters of the bird world. Yet it is typically American,even in this variety; for what other race would have the temerity to har- (134). BALTIMORE ORIOLE (Upper Figure, Male; Lower Figure. Female) Order—Passeres Family — Icterid^e Genus—Icterus Species—Galbula The Baltimore Oriole 135 bor the Bobolink, Orchard and Baltimore (Orioles, Redwing, Meadow-lark, various Grackles, together with the vagrant Cowbird, in the branchesof the same family tree ? One of the many welcome facts concerning the Oriole is the ease withwhich he is identified; and I say he advisedly, for his more industrious half,who is the expert weaver of the pair, is much the more somber of hue. Inearly May, or even as late as the middle of the month in backward seasons,you will hear a half-militant, half-complaining note from the high treebranches. As you go out to find its origin, it will be repeated, and then aflash of flame and black will shoot across the range of vision towardanother tree, and the bird, chiding and complaining, begin a minute searchalong the smaller twigs for insects. This is the Oriole, Icterus galbula,as he fi
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