. I nostri uccelli settentrionali ed orientali : contenenti le descrizioni degli uccelli degli stati settentrionali ed orientali e delle province britanniche; insieme ad una storia delle loro abitudini, dei tempi di arrivo e di partenza, della loro distribuzione, del cibo, del canto, del tempo di riproduzione, e ad una descrizione accurata dei loro nidi e uova . s, rump, copri coda superiore, e coperture di diminuzione, con parte terminale delle piume di coda (tranne due più interne), arancio-rosso; bordi di battelli alare, con una fascia attraverso le punte delle coperture più grandi, bianco. La femmina è di colore molto meno brillante; il nero della testa e della schiena

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. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . s, rump, upper tail coverts, and lesserwing coverts, with terminal portion of tail feathers (except two innermost), orange-red; edges of wing quills, with a band across the tips of the greater coverts, white. The female is much less brilliant in color; the black of the head and back gene-rally replaced by brownish-yellow, purer on the throat; each feather with a blackspot. Length, seven and fifty one-hundredths inches; wing, three and seventy-fiveone-hundredths inches. This weU-known species is abundantly distributed through-out New England as a summer visitor. It makes its appear-ance about the 8th of May in Massachusetts, and about the middle of that monthor later, in the nortli-^ ern districts. It com-mences building aboutthe 20th of May. Thenest is usually fixedin an elm-tree nearhouses, or in an appleor pear tree in the or-chard. Nuttalls de-scription of the nestis the best that I have ever seen, and much better thanany I could make: although somewhat lengthy, I give itentire: —. THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 840 There is nothing more remarkable in the whole instinct of ourGolden Robin than the ingenuity disjjlayed in the fabrication of itsnest, which is, in fact, a pendulous, cylindric pouch of five to seveninches in depth, usually suspended from near the extremities of thehigh drooping branches of trees (such as the elm, the pear, or ajDpletree, wild cherry, weeping willow, tulip-tree, or buttonwood). Itis begun by firmly fastening natural strings of the flax of the silk-weed, or swamp hollyhock, or stout artificial threads, around two ormore forked twigs, corresponding to the intended width and depthof the nest. With the same materials, willow-down, or

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