. Birds : illustrated by color photography : a monthly serial .. . as jolly as he looks. Shall Itell you how he amuses his mate while she is sitting? He springsfrom the dew-wet grass with asound like peals of merry laugh-ter. He frolics from reed topost, singing as if his littleheart would burst with joy. Dont you think Mr. and look happy in thepicture? They have raisedtheir family of five. Four oftheir children have gone to lookfor food ; one of them—he mustsurely be the baby—wouldrather stay with his mamma andpapa. Which one does he looklike? Many birds are quiet at noonand in t
. Birds : illustrated by color photography : a monthly serial .. . as jolly as he looks. Shall Itell you how he amuses his mate while she is sitting? He springsfrom the dew-wet grass with asound like peals of merry laugh-ter. He frolics from reed topost, singing as if his littleheart would burst with joy. Dont you think Mr. and look happy in thepicture? They have raisedtheir family of five. Four oftheir children have gone to lookfor food ; one of them—he mustsurely be the baby—wouldrather stay with his mamma andpapa. Which one does he looklike? Many birds are quiet at noonand in the afternoon. A flockof Bobolinks can be heard sing-ing almost all day long. Thesong is full of high notes andlow, soft notes and loud, allsung rapidly. It is as gay andbright as the birds themselves,who flit about playfully as theysing. You will feel like laugh-ing as merrily as they sing whenyou hear it some day. 96 THE BOBOLINK. •When Nature had made all her birds, And had no cares to think on, She gave a rippling laugh, And out there flew a , O American ornithologistomits mention of the Bobo-link, and naturalists gener-ally have describedhim under one of themany names by which he is some States he is called the RiceBird, in others Reed Bird, the Rice orReed Bunting, while his more familiartitle, throughout the greater part ofAmerica, is Bobolink, or Jamaica, where he gets very fatduring his winter stay, he is called theButter Bird. His title of RiceTroopial is earned by the depredationswhich he annually makes upon therice crops, though his food is by nomeans restricted to that seed, but con-sists in a large degree of insects, grubs,and various wild grasses. A migra-tory bird, residing during the winterin the southern parts of America, hereturns in vast multitudes northwardin the early Spring. According toWilson, their course of migration is asfollows: In April, or very early inMay, the Rice Buntings, male andfemale, arrive within th
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