These ORIOLES probably mate before migrating to northern part of their range for they are always in pairs. Their song is sweet and plaintive, lacking the cheery tone of our Baltimore Oriole. If one bird wanders off the other recalls it by continual pleading notes until they are together.
NEST: semipensile; well woven of dried grass usually located in mesquite trees within 15 feet of ground.
EGGS: 3–5; pale blue or gray, marked with hairlines of purple and brown.
Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
A 20-foot tree distributed in Brazos river Valley, Texas.