_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.