Tricolored orchard oriole. Feb. 18 - 1875 one another and at frequent intervals some of the younger birds would break out in that practicing strain of song peculiar to the season. Several times I caught a fragment of the true glorious fine rapid warbles and once a male sang loudly and boldly several times in succession. Among the evergreens behind me my attention was next attracted by a crackling sound the authors of which I soon detected to be a little company of Carduelis purpureus dry in number which were feeding on the cedar berries. Only one among them was in the full red plumage. While watching this most interesting scene, a flock of about a dozen jays broke some whirling overhead and lighted near me. I had a good view of them and noticed that they were all in the immature plumage, and my surprise and delight was greater when the next moment one of them (I could not identify the individual) broke out into a loud, rapid, and most beautiful song; again and again was this repeated until the whole valley rang with his wild powerful notes, and when they ceased at last and the flock departed as suddenly as it came the place seemed to swell at once its attraction to me and all the interest which had attached to the other and better known species was gone. This song which I had never heard before was very like the best efforts of Carduelis purpureus, and