rs. The nest of finely
woven grasses is not so deep as that of the Baltimore. Three to five
bluish white eggs, spotted and scrawled with black, are laid the latter
part of May.

BALTIMORE ORIOLE

_Icterus galbula. Case 7, Figs. 8, 9_

The orange and black male needs no introduction;
the female is tinted with orange strongly enough
to show her relationship. L. 7-1/2.

_Range._ Eastern North America; nests from
northern Georgia to Canada; winters in the
tropics.

Washington, rather common S.R., Apl. 29-Aug. 26.
Ossining, common S.R., May 2-Sept. 1. Cambridge,
very common S.R., May 8 through Aug. N. Ohio,
common S.R., Apl. 15-Sept. 10. Glen Ellyn, common
S.R., Apl. 26-Sept. 4. SE. Minn., common S.R., May
1-Sept. 1.

This is the orange-and-black whistler of our fruit and shade trees,
whose wife skillfully weaves a pendant cradle at the end of some
drooping branch, therein to lay her white eggs curiously marked with
fine lines and blotches of black. The young, after leaving the nest in
June, have a loud, babyish food-call, _dee-dee-dee-dee_, repeated time
after time until their wants are satisfied.

RUSTY BLACKBIRD

_Euphagus carolinus. Case 5, Figs. 3, 4_

The bird's common name is based on the fall
plumage of the male, which is broadly margined
with rusty. By spring these tips wear off and the
bird is glossy black. Size of the Red-wing but
with a whitish eye and no red; the female
unstreaked.

_Range._ Eastern North America; nests from the
northern part of the northern states to Canada;
winters from New Jersey and Ohio to the Gulf
States.

Washington, common W.V., Oct. 13-Apl. 30.
Ossining, common T.V., Mch. 26-May 8; Sept.
28-Nov. 27. Cambridge, very common T.V., Mch.
10-May 8; Sept. 15-Oct. 31. N. Ohio, common T.V.,
Mch. 5-May 10; Sept. 10-Nov. 15. Glen Ellyn,
common T.V., Mch. 3-May 8; Sept. 12-Nov. 15;
uncommon W.V. SE. Minn., common T.V., Mch. 26-Nov.
24.

This is the least conspicuous of our Blackbirds. It nests chiefly north
of the United States, migrates in small flocks, and is less noisy than
the Red-wing or Grackle and not so much in evidence as the Cowbird.
Dwight describes its notes as "a co