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BULLOCK'S ORIOLE
Male
Female
Back:
Subject 6
RESTORE
PROTECT CONSERVE
AMERICA'S
RESOURCES
WILDLIFE
BULLOCK'S ORIOLE
cotton woods or willows. The
(Icterus bullocki)
three to six eggs are bluish-
white
or pale buffy, lined and scrawled
This is the common Oriole or "Fire Bird" with blackish. If you put out a supply of
of much of the West, and it may be dis- string, yarn or floss, and cut it into ten
tinguished from other American Orioles inch lengths, Orioles will sometimes use
by the black crown and large white it for nest-building
wing patches
In the summertime, this species
The nest is a cup-like affair, hanging ranges as far north as southern British
from the tips of the branches, from 6 to Columbia and southern Saskatchewan.
40 feet from the ground, generally in It winters in Mexico.
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Copyright 1939, National Wildlife Publishing Corp., New York
