. . I was walking through a pasture,when one of these birds approached the roadside and withupraised wings alighted on a fence post and eyed mecuriously. Her plaintive alarm note was a quavering whis-tle quite in keeping with the way she folded her longpointed wings. Two years later, when in the same locality,I was walking against the wind one warm day, whena bobolink fluttered to the grass six feet ahead. Partingthe grass and weeds, I decided to secure this nest for agroup, and settled myself preparatory to making a fewnotes. After
. . I was walking through a pasture,when one of these birds approached the roadside and withupraised wings alighted on a fence post and eyed mecuriously. Her plaintive alarm note was a quavering whis-tle quite in keeping with the way she folded her longpointed wings. Two years later, when in the same locality,I was walking against the wind one warm day, whena bobolink fluttered to the grass six feet ahead. Partingthe grass and weeds, I decided to secure this nest for agroup, and settled myself preparatory to making a fewnotes. After some fifteen minutes I placed one handbehind me to arise, when my finger-tips touched somethingsoft, and a bartramian warbled from a tussock within anarms length. She was a crippled bird, and her notesindicated the utmost distress. During the nesting season the male bartramian mountshigh in the air, and on quivering wings utters a long-drawn-out, plaintive whistle. This sound, when first heard, usuallyproduces an uncanny effect upon the listener, who is unable. KlK \MIAX S WUriPER.(I$artraniia lon^icauda).% Life-size.
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