. Our birds in their haunts [microform] : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. Birds; Oiseaux. 240 THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. O, these days of life and song! they are but too short and fleeting! I go into my study, in the early morning, and sit by the open window which overlookw village. THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. nestling among the trees. What a delicious fragrance floats on the breeze! What ran be more suggestive of Paradise than this delightful chorus of birds, and this budding and blooming of spring ? Ah! my old favorite, the Baltimore Oriole {Icterus
. Our birds in their haunts [microform] : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America. Birds; Oiseaux. 240 THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. O, these days of life and song! they are but too short and fleeting! I go into my study, in the early morning, and sit by the open window which overlookw village. THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. nestling among the trees. What a delicious fragrance floats on the breeze! What ran be more suggestive of Paradise than this delightful chorus of birds, and this budding and blooming of spring ? Ah! my old favorite, the Baltimore Oriole {Icterus balti- more)y has arrived during the night. I hear his loud, sweet whistle in the large elm just across the way. Now he has passed directly before the window, and lit in full view in the orchard. He is well worthy of the epithet " Golden " in his old familiar name, Golden Robin, only he is no Robin at £.11; and if Lord Baltimore, for whom he is named, could have equaled his brilliancy in the colors of hiscoat-of-arms, he was a gay fellow to lead a persecuted people into the wilderness. Most appropriate of all, I think, is this bird's Indian name, " ; Appearing to the best advantage as he flies from you, does not that rump of bright orange, surrounded by the jet-black of his head, shoulders, wings and tail, glow like a burning coal? And, as he spreads his tail in lightings. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Langille, J. H. (James Hibbert), 1841-1923. Boston : S. E. Cassino
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