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GENUS 15. ORIOLUS.*
      SPECIES i. ORIOL US BEJL TIMIOR US. t
                  BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
                  [Plate. 1. -Fig. 3. MNale.]
LINN. SySt. 1, P. 162, l0.-Icterus Minor, Bi[Rss. 1J, P. 109, pl. 10,
  fig. I .-Le Baltinmore, BUFF. III, P. 23 1. Pt. Enl. 506,fig. 1.-
  Baltimore Bird, CATESB. Car. 1, 48.- .Jct. Zool. ii, p, 142.
  -LATH. Syn. ui, p). 43)2, 19. BARTRAM, P. 090.-PEALMs Mku-
  seuna, .No. 1506.
  THIS is a bird of passage, arriving in Pennsylvania, from the
south, about the beginning of May, and departing towards the
latter end of August, or beginning of September. From the
singularity of its colours, the construction of its nest, and its
preferring the apple-trees, weeping-willows, walnut and tulip-
trees, adjoining the farm-house, to build on, it is generally
known, and, as usual, honoured with a variety of names, such
as Hang-nest, Hanging-bird, Golden Robin, Fire-bird (from
the bright orange seen through the green leaves, resembling a
flash of fire), &c. but more generally the Baltimore-bird, so
named, as Catesby informs us, from its colours, which are black
and orange, being those of the arms or livery of lord Baltimore,
formerly proprietary of Maryland.
  The Baltimore Oriole is seven inches in length; bill almost
straight, strong, tapering to a sharp point, black, and sometimes
  * This genus has been variously divided by modern ornithologists. Tem-
tninck has separated it into four sections, viz. Cassicus, Quiscala, Icterus,
and
Emberizoides. The two species described by Wilson, belong to the third section,
Mcterts.
-t Coracias Galbula, L SN. Syst. e(. 10, toiti. 1, 108.-U-ioluws Balt!imore,
L K1R1.
hId. O-n. 180.
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