. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . his sub-scription for himself and brother toThe Oologist after having lost trackof it as he says for many, many years. AN EXPERIENCE WITH THEORCHARD ORIOLE. (A. O. U. 506 Icterus spurius)The Orchard Oriole is a commonnesting bird in the vicinity of Bards-town, Kentucky, arriving in the springabout April 23rd. At least one pairannually nests at the home of thewriter, generally selecting the top ofa peach tree as a nesting site. On the morning of May 23rd, 1916,while at work in the garden, a femaleOrchard Oriole was observed to alig
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . his sub-scription for himself and brother toThe Oologist after having lost trackof it as he says for many, many years. AN EXPERIENCE WITH THEORCHARD ORIOLE. (A. O. U. 506 Icterus spurius)The Orchard Oriole is a commonnesting bird in the vicinity of Bards-town, Kentucky, arriving in the springabout April 23rd. At least one pairannually nests at the home of thewriter, generally selecting the top ofa peach tree as a nesting site. On the morning of May 23rd, 1916,while at work in the garden, a femaleOrchard Oriole was observed to alightin a patch of blue-grass, and in a fewseconds flew away to a peach treewith a piece of grass in her bill. Ap-proaching the tree the oriole couldbe seen weaving the grass into a nestnear the top of the tree, and a malebird could be heard singing in thetrees nearby. On the 30th day of May, I climbedto the nest. The female was on anddid not leave the nest until I was with-in three feet of it. Standing in a forkand pulling the limb with the nest 82 THE OOLOGIST. Black Skimmer. Typical Nest Showing Full Clutch and allEggs Perfectly Marked. Photo by Stanley Clisby Arthur. slightly toward me, two eggs could beseen, one of which was slightly largerthan the other. A few days later onvisiting the nest there were only twoeggs and the birds were still aboutthe orchard, but I did not notice thefemale fly off the nest as on theoccasion of the first climb. A fewdays before this the male bird wasseen and he was of the greenish plu-mage, much resembling the mature males were seen about theplace since early in May so this cer-tainly must have been the mate of thebird who built the nest. It was not my intention to collectthis set but as there were only twoeggs at my last visit, I again climbedto the nest expecting to find severaleggs, but to my surprise found noeggs at all. The nest was in good coq-dition but what happened to the eggswas a mystery to me. About thistime (unfortunately
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