The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its name from the resemblance of the male`s colors to those on the coat-of-arms of Lord Baltimore. Like all New World orioles, it is named after an unrelated, physically similar family found in the Old Worl....
• A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.
(from the article `oriole`) ...New World were first called orioles by the early American settlers because the birds` black-and-yellow patterns resembled those of the true ...
[n] - eastern subspecies of northern oriole
Baltimore bird noun eastern subspecies of northern oriole