Plate XII. Adult and Young Male. Plate CCCCXXIII. Fig. 3.
Female.
Second and third quills longest, fourth longer than first; tail
slightly rounded. Male with the head, throat, sides, and hind part of
the neck, with the fore part of the back, black; lower parts, rump,
upper tail-coverts, and smaller wing-coverts rich orange, passing into
orange-red on the breast; wings black, the secondary coverts largely
tipped, and the quills margined with white; tail black, all the
feathers tipped with rich yellow, the outer for half their length, the
middle on a very small space. Female considerably smaller, with the
upper part of the head, hind neck, sides of the neck at the middle,
and anterior half of the back, brownish-black, the feathers edged with
dull yellowish-green; hind part of the back light brownish-yellow,
purer on the rump; tail yellowish-brown, the middle feathers darker;
wing-coverts blackish-brown, quills dark brown, all margined with
whitish; first row of small coverts and secondary coverts largely
tipped with white; loral space, a band over the eye, and another
beneath it, dull yellow; below the latter the cheeks spotted with
dusky; lower parts yellowish-orange, duller than in the male, paler
behind; some dusky streaks on the throat. Young similar to the female,
but with the upper parts brownish-yellow, the head and back faintly
spotted with dusky.
_Male_, 7-3/4, 12. _Female_, 7, 11.
In summer dispersed over the United States, to Nova Scotia. Columbia
River. Texas. Abundant. Migratory.
Baltimore Oriole, Oriolus Baltimore, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p.
23.
Icterus Baltimore, Bonap. Syn. p. 51.
Baltimore Oriole or Golden Robin, Icterus Baltimore, Nutt.
Man. v. i. p. 152.
Baltimore Oriole, Icterus Baltimore, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p.
66; v. v. p. 278.