One of her adornments was the head, breast, and wing of a Baltimore oriole, worn in her hat.

The male oriole attended faithfully to the wants of his soberer-hued wife sitting upon the four eggs in their nest.

The male oriole and the male bluebird had each a brilliant coat!

The father and mother oriole and the father and mother bluebird, each pair vain and prettily jubilant over what had happened, worked very hard to bring food to the open mouths of their offspring.

The man in Indiana wanted to kill the magnificent male oriole who was feeding his young birds in the nest.

One of them took home a beautiful dead oriole, and the other took not one but two beautiful bluebirds, for as the male bluebird came back to the nest with food for the younglings, it so chanced that the female came also, and the same charge of shot killed them both.

" The man who shot the oriole would have gladly committed and profited by a similar double murder had the mother bird happened upon the scene when he shot her orange-and-black mate.

The widowed oriole fluttered about and beat her wings against the bushes in vain search for her lost lovefor birds love as madly, and, I have sometimes thought, more faithfully than do human beings.

But her children clamored, and the oriole had the mother instinct as well as the faithful love in her, and so she went to work for them.

The male oriole, who had been learning where the insects and worms are, where whatever is good for little birds is, all through the time while the female bird is sitting on the nest, must necessarily know much more than his wife as to where things to eat for the children may be found nearest and most easily and swiftly.

So long as my beautiful woman wears the feathers of the bluebird, the oriole, or any other of the singing creatures of God, I call her the accomplice of a murderer.

She would not tread upon a worm; and I recollect to this day, what an agony of tears she fell into upon one occasion, when some boys killed the young of an oriole, and the poor bird sat singing its soul away for grief upon the poplar.

The girl gazed for some moments at the crimson and yellow trees, on which a murmurous laughter of mocking winds arose, at times, and rustled on, and died away into the psithurisma of Theocritus; and the songs of the oriole and mocking-bird fluttering among the ripe fruit, or waving up into the sky, brought a pleasant smile to her lips.

She gazed again upon the brilliant morning land, and listened to the birds, and smiledfor in the sunlight, and the carol of the bright-winged oriole, and every murmur of the merry wind, she felt the presence of a loving and All-merciful Creator, who would bless her, if she loved and obeyed Him.

The streams ran merrily in the rich lightthe oriole swayed upon the gorgeous boughs and sang away his soulover all drooped the diaphanous haze of October, like an enchanting dream.

The oriole flashes by; and, look!

* * The sentinel cock upon the hill-side crew, Crew thrice, and all was stiller than before, Silent, till some replying warder blew His alien horn, and then was heard no more. Where erst the jay, within the elm's tall crest, Made garrulous trouble round her unfledged young, And where the oriole hung her swaying nest, By every light wind, like a censer, swung.

MARLOWE, AMY BELL. When Oriole went to boarding school.

" The Orchard Oriole Length seven inches.

" "There goes another Oriole!"

Thy music still when whippoorwill And oriole are done!

As occasional visitors may be reckoned the wax-wing, golden oriole, cross-bill, hoopoe, white-tailed eagle, honey buzzard, ruff, puffin, great bustard, Iceland gull, glaucous gull, and Bewick's swan.

The thankful oriole used to pour, Swing'st empty while the north winds chase Their snowy swarms from Labrador: But, loyal to the happy past, I love thee still for what thou wast.

How strong they feel on their horses free, Tingles the tendoned thigh with life; Their cavalry-jackets make boys of all With golden breasts like the oriole; The chat, the jest, and laugh are rife.

The song of the Baltimore Oriole is little less remarkable than his fine appearance, and the ingenuity with which he builds his nest.