Identifier: birdsnatureinnat02chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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not, however, oftenmigrate farther north and east than the state of Connecticut. Their stay in the United States, it appears from Wilson, is little more thanfour months, as they retire to South America early in September, or at least donot winter in the southern states. According to my friend Mr. Ware, they breedat Augusta in Georgia; and Mr. Day observed the species at Major Longs winterquarters on the banks of the Missouri. Audubon remarks that the northern migrations of this species, like those ofthe Baltimore oriole, are performed by day, and that the males arrive a week orten days sooner than their mates. They appear to affect the elevated and airyregions of the Allegheny mountains, where they are much more numerous thanthe Baltimore orioles. The orchard oriole is an exceedingly active, sprightly, and restless bird; inthe same instant, almost, he is on the ground after some fallen insect, flutteringamid the foliage of the trees, prying and springing after his lurking prey, or 234
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ORCHARD ORIOLE.g Life-Size. flying and tuning his lively notes in a manner so hurried, rapid and seeminglyconfused that the ear is scarce able to thread out the shrill and lively tones ofhis agitated ditty. Between these hurried attempts he also gives others, whichare distinct and agreeable, and not unlike the sweet warble of the red-breastedGrosbeak, though more brief and less varied. In choosing the situation of his nest he is equally familiar with the Balti-more oriole, and seems to enjoy the general society of his species, suspending hismost ingenious and pensile fabric from the bending twigs of the apple tree. Likethe nest of the other, this is constructed in the form of a pouch from three tofive inches in depths, according to the strength or the flexibility of the tree onwhich he labors. In a weeping willow, according to Wilson, the nest is one ortwo inches deeper than if in an apple tree, to obviate the danger of throwingout the eggs or the young by the sweep of the long, pendu

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