Baltimore bird

from The Century Dictionary.

• See oriole.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• (Zoöl.) A common bird (Icterus galbula) of eastern and central America and Canada, named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin. It winters in the American tropics.

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• noun eastern subspecies of northern oriole