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Title: Our bird friends; containing many things young folks ought to know--and likewise grown-ups
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Burba, George Francis, 1865-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company

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Its song is sweet andsimple; eight or ten notes of mellowness; a pause and the sameeight or ten notes repeated, now softer, now louder—always thesame eight or ten pulsations of liquid melody. And as for its color—was ever there a more delightful blending,or a brighter one? The male is black all around the neck andhead, and the fore part of the wings and tail are black. Thequills have a white margin. The underparts and portions ofthe wings and the lower part of the back are brightest orange,tinged with vermilion upon the neck and breast. The bill isa light blue, as are the feet, and the eye is yellow. It flits in andout among the green leaves, leaving one bewildered at themovements. The female is colored as is the male, except that instead ofthe bright orange and vermilion there is dull yellow and olivebrown. She is also slightly smaller than her lord and master,who does not assume his best garments until the third year.The first year there is little difference between the male and
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FROM COL. 56 r. M. WOODRUFF BALTIMORE ORIOLE. (Icterus galbula). I Life-size. PUBLISHED BY ATKINSON, MENTZER 4 GROVER, CHICAGO THE ORIOLE 151 female; the second year shows the male growing brighter, andthe third year and thereafter he bears upon him the colors thatdistinguish him. In preparing their nest the orioles select a slender branch thatruns far out from the body of the tree—always a green branchwith leaves upon it. A maple is a favorite place for them, butthey nest also in other trees, sometimes in a wild cherry thathas been left along an old fence row. A foot or two from theend of the twig, where there is a fork, is the place selected.Around these two or three branches, often smaller than a leadpencil, the birds wind strings or long fibers from dead grasses,until the limbs are covered, being inside of the nest as one mightsay. Then they begin weaving a swinging basket that is water-proof, knotting thread to thread, and bits of grass to bits ofgrass, and poking into it and t

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