. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . Bird. Dolichomjx oryzivorus. Length. — About seven and one-fourth inches. Adult Male. — In spring and early summer, mainly black; nape creamy buff; streaks on upper back grayish-white; shoulders and lower back ashy-white; in August and September the jjlumage resembles that of the Female and Young. — Upper parts bro-mi, dark-streaked; lower parts yellowish-brown,
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . Bird. Dolichomjx oryzivorus. Length. — About seven and one-fourth inches. Adult Male. — In spring and early summer, mainly black; nape creamy buff; streaks on upper back grayish-white; shoulders and lower back ashy-white; in August and September the jjlumage resembles that of the Female and Young. — Upper parts bro-mi, dark-streaked; lower parts yellowish-brown, — On ground, in — Gray, spotted with brown and overlaid with dusky streaks, blotches, and — May to September. The Bobolink is the harlequin of the spring meadows. Heis a happy-go-lucky fellow, with his suit on wrong side up,the black below and the Avhite above ; a reckless, rollicking sort of a fowl, throwing careto the winds, and alwaysbent on a lark. His spiritsare of the effervescent kind,and his music buljbles irre-pressibly forth at such a ratethat half a dozen notes seemto be crowding upon theheels of every one , this is about the only. Figr. 144. — Boboliuk, male, and armyworm, one-half natural size. bird that completely baffles the latter-day interpreters ofbird music. His notes tumble out with such headlong rapid-ity, in an apparent effort to jump over each other, that it isnext to impossible for the scribe to set them down in theproper sequence of musical notation. Nevertheless, thisharum-scarum expression of irrepressible joy is of the mostpleasing character, and ranks among the finest music of thefields.
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