. Young folk's illustrated book of birds : with numerous original, instructive and amusing anecdotes . parties of four orfive, watching at the entrance of these holes, to seize thefirst straggling young that should make its the clouds of Swallows that usually play round thesebreeding-places, they remind one at a distance of a swarmof bees. The Bank Swallow arrives here earlier than either of thepreceding j begins to build in April, and has commonly twobroods in the season. Their voice is a low mutter. Theyare particularly fond of the shores of rivers, and, in severalplaces alon
. Young folk's illustrated book of birds : with numerous original, instructive and amusing anecdotes . parties of four orfive, watching at the entrance of these holes, to seize thefirst straggling young that should make its the clouds of Swallows that usually play round thesebreeding-places, they remind one at a distance of a swarmof bees. The Bank Swallow arrives here earlier than either of thepreceding j begins to build in April, and has commonly twobroods in the season. Their voice is a low mutter. Theyare particularly fond of the shores of rivers, and, in severalplaces along the Ohio, they congregate in immense multi-tudes. BALTIMORE ORIOLE. {Oriolut ) This is a bird of passage, arriving in Pennsylvania, fromtne south, about the beginning of May, and departingtowards the latter end of August, or beginning of migration, the flight of the Baltimore is high aboveall the trees, and is straight and continuous; it is mostljperformed during the day, as they are usually obierved«lighting, always singly, about the^ setting of the sun, nttei^ iWl^. THB BALTIMORE OKIOLB. 49 ing a note or two, and darting into the lower branches tofeed, and afterwards to rest. From the singularity of its colours, the construction ofits nest, and its preferring the apple-trees, weeping willows,walnut and tulip-trees, adjoining the farm-house, to buildon, it is generally known, and, as usual, honoured with avariety of4iames, such as Hang-nest, Hanging-Bird, GoldenRobin, Fire-Bird (from the bright orange seen through thegreen leaves, resembling a flash of fire), &c., but moregenerally the Baltimore Bird, so named, as Catesby informsUB, from its colours, which are black and orange, beingthose of the arms or livery of Lord Baltimore, formerlyproprietary of Maryland. Their principal food consists of caterpillars, beetles, andbugs, particularly one of a brilliant glossy green, fiagmentsof which are almost always found in their stomach, andsometimes these
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