Audubon 131
Orchard Oriole
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The orchard oriole, wrote Audubon, “is easily kept in cages, where it sings with all the liveliness which it shows in its wild state, and may be fed on rice and dry fruits, when fresh ones cannot be procured, I have known one of these birds, a beautiful male, kept for upwards of four years by a friend of mine in New Orleans.” “The plumage of many species of our birds undergoes at times very extraordinary changes,” he explained, and he illustrated the point by showing two adult male orioles in reddish plumage, two immature males (top right and behind the nest at left) in differing plumage, and a female, which resembles the young males but never develops black throat feathers as they do. Audubon signed this water color and dated it “Louisiana April 12th 1822″ (the other date, 1828, refers to the publication of the engraving). Joseph Mason, who was working with Audubon when the painting was made, probably drew the nest and the limb of the honey-locust tree.
- Artist:
- Audubon
- Size:
- 10.25″x13.38″