Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

SCOTT ORIOLE.

504. Icterus parisorum. 8 inches.

This is not a common species in any part of its range, from southern California to Texas, and in Mexico. It is a handsomely marked bird, with its clear black and yellow. They build a hanging nest, usually suspended from the under sides of the leaves of the yucca palm, or from small branches of low trees. Three to four bluish white eggs, specked and blotched with brown about the larger end (.95 × .65).