. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . land of Jamaica,where, because of their extreme fatness, they are knownas Butterbirds. From Jamaica they go to the mainland,either of Central America, or by one continuous flight offour hundred miles to northern South America, thencetraveling southward to their winter home. The northward journey is begun in March or April,and about the 25th of the latter month the vanguardreaches Florida. It is composed only of males, nowcalled Maybirds, all in full song. Let any one whoknows the Bobolinks song imagine, if he can, the efl^ectproduced by t
. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . land of Jamaica,where, because of their extreme fatness, they are knownas Butterbirds. From Jamaica they go to the mainland,either of Central America, or by one continuous flight offour hundred miles to northern South America, thencetraveling southward to their winter home. The northward journey is begun in March or April,and about the 25th of the latter month the vanguardreaches Florida. It is composed only of males, nowcalled Maybirds, all in full song. Let any one whoknows the Bobolinks song imagine, if he can, the efl^ectproduced by three hundred birds singing together! About May 1 Bobolinks reach the vicinity of KewYork city. The females soon follow the males, andearly in June the birds are nesting. This is the gladseason of the Bobolinks year. For ten months he hasbeen an exile, but at last he is at home again, and hegives voice to his joy in the jolliest tinkling, rippling,rollicking song that ever issued from birds throat. In the fields made merry by the music of Bobolinks one.
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