The Baltimore oriole.
1824. The fire-bird streamed by them, with his deep-red plumage.W. Irving, Tales of a Traveller, p. 436. (N.E.D.)
1856.
The hollow woods, in the setting sun, | |
Ring shrill with the fire-birds lay. | |
Bryant, Indian Story. (N.E.D.) |
a. 1870.
My oriole, my glance of summer fire, | |
Is come at last, and, ever on the watch, | |
Twitches the pack-thread I had lightly wound | |
About the bough to help his housekeeping. | |
Lowell, Under the Willows. |