. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 338 SB8TS AND EGGS OF all our natural songsters the Bobolink is the most noted and popular. Descriptions of his song so frequently appear in literature that even those who have not heard it must form a good idea of its enchanting music: " That rollicking. Jubilant whistle, That rolls like a brooklet along— That sweet flaeeolet of the meadows. The bubbling, ,bobolink ; Often have I heard him sing when on the wing, or when at rest, with the broad, meadow and pasture lands spread before him, perched on. the top of a wind-beate
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 338 SB8TS AND EGGS OF all our natural songsters the Bobolink is the most noted and popular. Descriptions of his song so frequently appear in literature that even those who have not heard it must form a good idea of its enchanting music: " That rollicking. Jubilant whistle, That rolls like a brooklet along— That sweet flaeeolet of the meadows. The bubbling, ,bobolink ; Often have I heard him sing when on the wing, or when at rest, with the broad, meadow and pasture lands spread before him, perched on. the top of a wind-beaten reed, with his wings sunward spread, his head erect, his white and black bacK glistening in the sunlight, pouring forth his "bubble-ing" bobolink notes to the azure windows of heaven. In the South he is known as the Rice-bird, in the Middle States as Reed-bird and Meadow-wink, and in the North as Skunk Blackbird. The nesting. 494. BoBOLINtC. time is in the latter part of May or in June. The nest of the Bobolink is very hard to find; it is built in a natural cavity of the ground, amongst the tall grass of meadows; sometimes it is sunk in the depression made by a cow's or a horse's hoof. Fields of clover, with here and there a tall weed-staii or sapling, on which the birds alight, are favorite nesting resorts. In leaving the nest the female will run off through the grass quite a distance before rising, and she will repeat the same performance upon her return, so that the nest can only be found by diligent and careful search in the vicinity from which she arises. The eggs, too, resemble the color of the ground so closely that they are easily overlooked. The nest is a very slight affair, made of dry grasses and weed-stems, arranged in a circular form. The eggs are usually five, sometimes six or seven in number, and of a dull white or grayish-white, variously tinged with light drab, olive reddish and grayish-brown, intermingled with laven- der; the general effect being
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