英语词汇“bobolink”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

My avian identification skills are lacking, but a brochure we picked up said the meadow provides habitat for bobolinks, eastern meadowlarks and northern harriers. In New York’s Catskills, the Hudson River school art trail brings landscape painting to life 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

It also holds the largest, westernmost populations of bobolinks, a twerpy little black-and-white songbird with a complex, mechanical call. Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Western meadowlarks and bobolinks shot over the fields. This North Dakota Bike Trail Is Stunning. Just Hope You Survive It. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

And the bobolink, known for its robust songs and long-distance travels to South America. North American grassland birds in peril, spurring all-out effort to save birds and their habitat 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z

For example, ospreys, bobolinks and at least 12 other species migrate between Washington, D.C. and Fonte Boa, Brazil. New atlas of bird migration shows extraordinary journeys 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

On a recent day, during a public tour of Freshkills, bald eagles soared over the wetlands while bobolinks sang from electrical wires. Where Coyotes, Foxes and Bobolinks Find a New Home: Freshkills Park 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

A news release from Tucker County Convention and Visitors Bureau said species likely to be seen include bobolinks, scarlet tanagers and Baltimore and orchard orioles. Birding festival set for next month at Canaan Valley Resort 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

The Tucker County Convention and Visitors Bureau says in a news release that species likely to be seen during the walks include bobolinks, scarlet tanagers and northern waterthrush. Bird watchers to flock to Canaan Valley for annual festival 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

“The main one is the bobolink,” park district Naturalist Linda Gilbert said. New habitat takes root above old Ohio landfill 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Since the program began five years ago, flocks of 50 or more bobolinks, a threatened species in the state, have been counted at the site. Green Blog: A Crop Dividend: Restored Bird Habitat in N.J. 2012-09-10T18:40:03Z

Other new breeding species include the eastern meadowlark, known for its sharp call; the blue grosbeak, a striking blue relative of the cardinal; and the bobolink, a bumblebee-colored blackbird that migrates 12,500 miles annually. Where Coyotes, Foxes and Bobolinks Find a New Home: Freshkills Park 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

We will ask the goldfinches, the mocking-birds, the bobolinks, the phœbe and chickadee families, all of the warbler and vireo families, and the robins of course. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z

The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z

"Anyhow, we'll know all about it in about two and a half flicks of a bobolink's tail," said Billy Worth, "for if that church spire up over the trees yonder isn't Sagersgrove, I'm blind." The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z

A bobolink flitted across the road, dropping a whole sheaf of silver notes from his joyous throat. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z

Skunk′-bird, -black′bird, the male bobolink in full plumage. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z

The other day," commenced daddy, "the bobolinks had an afternoon tea. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z

There's something in the apple-blossom, The greening grass and bobolink's song, That wakes again within my bosom Feelings which have slumbered long. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z

It goes North as the bobolink and goes South as the reedbird or ricebird. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z

A bobolink's bubbling carol is unthinkable in a jungle, and the strain of a wood pewee on a sunny hillside would be like an organ playing dance-music. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z

Such a rollicking, jolly singer is the bobolink! Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z

The bobolinks are great friends of the meadow larks and they wanted to be the first this season to entertain them. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z

The bobolink perched himself on the top of that new flagpole, and perhaps his trilled notes were a co-mingling of praise and good wishes. The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills 2011-11-17T03:00:34.720Z

We saw the lark and the cowslip and the rest on the printed page with one eye, the bobolink and the buttercup, and so on, with the other in nature. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z

And there is a bobolink, who flies around announcing his own name, and a tiny bird that says, ‘Phebe, Phebe;’ for in the country the birds can talk.” In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z

A score or more of bobolinks rising in some open meadow all day long, are worth travelling miles to hear. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z

And so the bobolinks made all their preparations for the tea party. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z

"The bobolinks have come" is as joyful a proclamation as announces the return of the bluebird and robin. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z

The robins and bobolinks were not invited, because they were such gluttons. Minnie; or, The Little Woman A Fairy Story 2011-07-18T02:00:19.717Z

I thought I heard the notes of a bobolink, but it turned out to be the mocking-bird, who seemed intent on singing down all the others. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z

As early as the Fourth of July, bobolinks begin to desert the choir, being the first birds to leave us. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z

After they had all chatted together—to us it would have sounded more like chirping—the bobolinks began to serve tea. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z

Summer still burns with unabated fervor, when we suddenly realize that there are no bobolinks. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z

He or she who is swelled full of conjecture whenever anybody commits an innocent indiscretion, as an owl blinks and ruffles up its feathers when the bobolink sings. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z

I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks, and thrushes, which were not charged in the bill. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z

The bobolink is a rollicking, jolly fellow; the grackle is solemn, even morose. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z

That gave it the most delicious flavor, and all the birds asked the bobolinks where they had found such good tea. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z

Early in the morning, when we first reached the pond, the bobolinks were rising and singing all over the lower water meadows, and the mists were turning to silver in the early 110 sunlight. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z

A bobolink left the bloom of a tree To tell her tale of whimsical glee; The moon dropped a pearl to wear in her breast; Dawn wove her a cloak of silvery mist. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z

Now and then a bobolink, an oriole, or a scarlet tanager would be seen. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z

Fancy a cousin of the musical bobolink behaving so! Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z

Besides, most of the bobolinks had new summer homes and their colony was near a beautiful stream. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z

When we came up from the bog in the late afternoon the bobolinks were silent, but a mother sand-peep wheeled and cried about the field, afraid that we would find her chickens. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z

Gay little Goldenhead lived within a town Full of busy bobolinks, flitting up and down, Pretty neighbor buttercups, cosy auntie clovers, And shy groups of daisies, all whispering like lovers. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z

While full and jubilant and clear, All the long day, from dawn till dark, The trill of bobolink we hear, Of hermit thrush and meadowlark. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z

On the way, a great transformation has gradually taken place in the male bobolink's dress. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z

You know the bobolinks always build their homes in the meadows—but they build very near a stream and their homes are always deep down in the long grass. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z

In the meadows the bobolink is in all his glory; in the high pastures the field-sparrow sings his breezy vesper-hymn; and the woods are unfolding to the music of the thrushes. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z

Gay little Goldenhead fair and fairer grew, Fed on flecks of sunshine, and sips of balmy dew, Swinging on her slender foot all the happy day, Chattering with bobolinks, gossips of the May. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z

Of Bobolink.—Prepare and clean twelve bobolinks as directed for birds, put a teaspoonful of truffles, cut in small dice, in each bird, for stuffing; sew the incision, and bake or roast the birds. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z

Some, like the bobolinks, travel to the tropics and beyond every winter; others, like the meadowlark, can endure the intense cold of the North. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z

The meadows were very large and the grass was so beautiful and so long that it always waved in the soft breezes, so that the bobolinks named their new summer place Waving Grassland. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z

You are walking forth in the soft morning air, when suddenly there comes a burst of bobolink melody from some mysterious source. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z

The fields beyond have been brought back to a good state of cultivation and present a beautiful green tract beyond which stretch rich meadows with waving grass where flit the bobolink and the red-winged blackbird. Remodeled Farmhouses

Drink pups drink pups lease a sash hold, see it shine and a bobolink has pins. Geography and Plays

Like them and the bobolink, the woodpeckers prop themselves by their outspread, stiffened tails. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z

He's spry, yet he's steady too; and he sings like a bobolink, though his songs are most dreadful as to words. East Angels

I make out the snow-bird, the bobolink, the warblers, and on two nights during the early part of May I heard very clearly the call of the sandpipers. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z

He missed the bobolink, the seaside finch, and the marsh wren, but his woods and grounds abounded in other species. Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt

To be part of the robin's lilting call And part of the bobolink's rhyme. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15

The chickadee, phoebe, peewee, towhee, whip-poor-will and bobolink, who tell their names less plainly than he, save every child who tries to know them much trouble. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z

Time passed on, from time to time, glad spring, and bobolinks, and light underwear succeeded stern winter, frost, and heavy flannels, and yet he cometh not, she sayed. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories

Instead of the bobolink, one encounters here, in the June meadows, the black-throated bunting, a bird closely related to the sparrows, and a very persistent, if not a very musical songster. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z

Nothing to her but foam and frisk,—no heart more than a bobolink! The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine

When the stage-horses stopped to walk, you could hear the crows caw, and the bobolinks singing, in the meadows. The Life of Nancy

The particular bush that hid my chewink babies had to be marked, as one would mark the special tuft of grass that hides a bobolink's nest. Upon The Tree-Tops

The bobolinks, perfectly unrecognizable in plain brown coats, continue to flock sparrow-wise about the meadows until say, the tenth. Old Plymouth Trails

Woodpigeon, bobolink, bluebird, oriole, cooed and trilled and warbled from the bush all around. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement

“If he heard a bobolink singing, he’d ask whether it was good to eat.” The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold

A bobolink, swaying on a weed stalk near by, answered Sherm’s chirrup to the ponies with a volley of golden notes. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John

Under the deep grass of the meadow dwelt bobolinks and meadow larks; from the pasture rose the silver threadlike song of the savanna sparrow and the martial note of the kingbird. Upon The Tree-Tops

In the meadows the bobolink is in all his glory; in the high pastures the field sparrow sings his breezy vesper hymn; and the woods are unfolding to the music of the thrushes. Eighth Reader

On one occasion, the third morning after my arrival, a bobolink appeared with a new note in his song. Ways of Nature

Does Shelley interpret the skylark, or Wordsworth the cuckoo, or Bryant the bobolink, or Whitman the mockingbird and the thrush? Under the Maples

Out of its fragrant heart of bloom,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems

They scattered over the meadow, and while I trembled for meadow lark and bobolink babies, I hoped they would not see me; but one of them came directly to the thorn-tree. Upon The Tree-Tops

Lord! how the birds sing now around the manor––screech owls, cat-birds, bobolinks!” The Strollers

Maybe it was the beginning of a variation that will in time result in an entirely new bobolink song. Ways of Nature

One thinks of the bobolink as singing almost habitually on the wing. Under the Maples

Out of its fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, “Why art thou but a nest of gloom, While the bobolinks are singing?” Poems

It is bad enough to doom the bobolink to the pot after he has changed his coat and become a reedbird, and given some reason for his fate by his unfortunate fondness for rice. Upon The Tree-Tops

We love the mellow notes of the woodthrush, and of the veery, the clear, rollicking outpourings of the bobolink, the musical love song of the brown thrasher, the cheerful scolding of the wren. The Meaning of Evolution

"What a contrast," I thought, "between the voice of the spluttering, tongue-tied lark, and the free, liquid, and varied song of the bobolink!" Ways of Nature

In early summer the bobolink perches there, then tiptoes, or tip-wings, away to the meadows below, pouring out his ecstatic song. Under the Maples

The two wan ghosts of the chamber there,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems

After a time he went away, and nobody thought any thing about him, till dinner-time, when, what should they see coming up the piazza steps, but Boney, with a bobolink in his mouth! Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad

Our bobolink, so well known and loved by all watchers of spring migrations, passes twice a year between the latitude of New York and Rio Janeiro. The Meaning of Evolution

Nearly every May I am seized with an impulse to go back to the scenes of my youth, and hear the bobolinks in the home meadows once more. Ways of Nature

We were not after their eggs, however, for we had all the bobolinks' eggs we wanted, carefully blown and laid away in our collection. Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly

The two wan ghosts of the chamber there Cease in the breath of the honeyed air, Sweep from the room and leave it bare, While the bobolinks are singing. Poems

Ringing, Ringing, Song of the blue-bird and bobolink’s call, Singing, Singing, Up in this beautiful world are they all! Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad

Snipes and plover, orioles and ovenbirds, bobolinks and meadow-larks, all had lived in it by turns for a few days. The Biography of a Prairie Girl

The songs of bobolinks differ in different localities, but those of the same locality always sing alike. Ways of Nature

In my sabbath walks along the beautiful country roads, I heard again the song of the cat-bird and the trill of the bobolink. A Son of the Middle Border

Then with a breath so chill and slow,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems

Bluebirds, and robins, and bobolinks, how glad they were! Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad

But the snipes and plover had gone into a decline, the orioles and ovenbirds had grown thin and unkempt, and the bobolinks and meadow-larks had eaten themselves to death. The Biography of a Prairie Girl

When the southern savannas were planted with rice, the bobolinks soon found that this food suited them. Ways of Nature

It must have been still in the warm September weather for we climbed the slender leafy trees and swayed and swung on their tip-tops like bobolinks. A Son of the Middle Border

Then with a breath so chill and slow, It freezes the blossoms into snow, The haunted room makes answer low, While the bobolinks are singing. Poems

The bobolink laughs in the meadow; The wild waves laugh on the sea; They sparkle and glance, they dimple and dance, And are merry as waves can be. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad

He discovers that the bobolink goes south in the night. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7

The bobolinks, like flashes of black and white, skimmed over it as they sang. Bobby of Cloverfield Farm

The bobolinks sail and tinkle in the sensuous hush, now sinking, now rising, their exquisite notes filling the air as with the sound of fairy bells. A Son of the Middle Border

I know that in the meadow-land The sorrowful, slender elm-trees stand, And the brook goes by on the other hand, While the bobolinks are singing. Poems

She was like a plump, saucy, sweet-throated bobolink, perched on a swaying bough and singing a joyous and daring “catch me if you can.” With Hoops of Steel

Here, perched upon a fence-rail, in the shadow of an elm, I gazed at the snow-crowned Mount Washington range, while the bobolinks and savanna sparrows made music on every side. Birds in the Bush

It only shows," remarked the bobolink, "how greatly those humans admire us birds. Policeman Bluejay

The whole is concealed by its very openness, and as hard to find, as the bobolink's cradle in the trackless grass of the meadow. A Bird-Lover in the West

But ever I see, in the brawling stream,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems

The thrasher is silent in the berry pasture, and the bobolink in the meadow. The Foot-path Way

The song of the bobolinks dropped from above, and the microphonic tune of the sparrows came up from the grass,—sky and earth keeping holiday together. Birds in the Bush

We followed the ups and downs of the road for a mile, passing a meadow full of bobolinks, "Bubbling rapturously, madly," climbed by a grass-grown wood road a mountain-side pasture, and reached the forest. Little Brothers of the Air

In the monotonous stretches of this shrub, each plant of which looks exactly like every other, dwelt many shy birds, as well hidden as bobolinks in the meadow grass, or meadow-larks in the alfalfa. A Bird-Lover in the West

But ever I see in the brawling stream A maiden drowned and floating dim, Under the water, like a dream, While the bobolinks are singing. Poems

I had never heard the nesting song of a bobolink before. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine

Every one that knew the bobolink in its summer home in the North insisted that this beautiful singer must be protected. Conservation Reader

Expressing himself was so great a relief to my bobolink, after his unnatural gravity of demeanor, that he repeated the performance again and again. Little Brothers of the Air

It was up a shady country lane, with a meadow-lark field on one side, and a bobolink meadow on the other. A Bird-Lover in the West

Wind, blow over her soft and bland, While the bobolinks are singing. Poems

But I only got this bobolink last night. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine

Hardly has the bobolink donned his first full dress before an irresistible impulse seizes him. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year

A bobolink sailed over my face, not three feet from it, singing his merriest, and then dropped into the grass behind me. Little Brothers of the Air

The river winds swept over the meadows in green waves, where the bobolinks toppled in the joy of their songs. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

O blow, but stir not the ghastly thing,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems

Ah, to my untried, youthful eyes those fresh great hay-fields, whitening with ox-eyed daisies, reddening with sweet-scented clover and streaked golden with vivid yellow butter-cups, over which the song-convulsed bobolinks hovered on arcuate wings! When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine

A young bob-white and a bobolink are hatched in the same New England field. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year

Were they busy in the grass with bobolink babies? and did they enjoy the music as keenly as I did? Little Brothers of the Air

Half the delight of a bobolink is that he is more synthetic, more of a poet, than other birds,—has a duet in his throat. The Lost Art of Reading

O blow, but stir not the ghastly thing The farmer saw so heavily swing From the elm, one merry morn of spring, While the bobolinks were singing. Poems

The larks, and bobolinks, and red-wings made every meadow riotous with song, and the ever-alert king-birds and flickers flew along from post to post as if to have a part in the celebration. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West

I judge that the bobolink escapes the dangers to which nesting birds are liable as few or no other birds do. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs

Not merely once did he honor me, but again and again without pausing, as if he intended to fill me as full of bobolink rapture as he was himself. Little Brothers of the Air

Even the bobolink is cosmic, if he sings with room enough; and when the heart wakes, the song of the cricket is infinite. The Lost Art of Reading

O blow, and blow away the bloom,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems

The bunting is about the size of the eastern bobolink, and bears some resemblance to that bird; but bobolink he is not, although sometimes mistaken for one, and even called by that name in Colorado. Birds of the Rockies

Lo, my voice recalls the robin, Brings the bobolink and bluebird, And the woods are full of music. Indian Legends of Minnesota

But when he had uttered his message he sank back into the grass, and I tore myself away from the bobolink meadow, and came home far richer and far happier than when I set out. Little Brothers of the Air

It sees the bobolink’s nest, That no one else can discover, And the brooding mother-bird With the floating grass above her. Graded Memory Selections

O blow, and blow away the bloom That sickens me in my heart of gloom, That sweetly sickens the haunted room, While the bobolinks are singing!” Poems

I do not mean to say that our bunting never circles, but simply that such is not his ordinary habit, while sweeping in a circle or ellipse is the favorite pastime of the eastern bobolink. Birds of the Rockies

Some people think that, besides the five senses given to a man, Nature gave one more to the bobolink—a sixth gift, called a "sense of direction." Bird Stories

My acquaintance with the bobolink was resumed a year later in the lovely summer home of a friend in the Black River Country, within sight of the Adirondack hills. Little Brothers of the Air

The bobolink is one of the first to leave us, though he does not start at once on his long journey. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

There the ways of things are very absurd; For a bobolink, or a yellow bird, Comes of its own accord, and sits On every knitting-needle that knits, And pipes and sings, As the rocker swings. On the Tree Top

In fine, his song is of a different order from that of the bobolink, and, therefore, the comparison need be carried no further. Birds of the Rockies

The names of some of the most important Stations that a bobolink, starting from Maine, should stop at on the way to Brazil and Paraguay, are Maryland, South Carolina, Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, and Venezuela. Bird Stories

"Yes, bobolinks," said our guide; "and you had to wait for an old half-blind man to find them for you." Little Brothers of the Air

So some morning we miss his cheerful call, and if we go to the meadow we shall not be able to see a single bobolink. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

But bobolink—he would flee In a fright—“A boy! see! see!” On the Tree Top

Their gaudy plumage contrasted strongly with the sombre, spotted attire of the bobolinks. The Black Phantom

What would you give to see this miracle—a bobolink flying through the night? Bird Stories

It was delivered on the wing, and not in his usual wave-like manner of flight, but sailing slowly around and around, very much as a bobolink does, singing rapturously, without pause or break. Little Brothers of the Air

Then, I caught him in my arms, kissed his velvet cheeks, chanked his fat neck, chuckled under his chin, and called him a bobolink; and he made all ring again with his merry bobolink laugh. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm

She played such jolly tunes, she sang like a bird, and whistled like a bobolink, could play checkers and chess and fox and geese, and she brought Jim a backgammon board. A Little Girl in Old New York

Your larks and bobolinks will be scared off by engines and smokestacks, and your flowers spoiled with soot. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic

Like a procession they go—the bobolinks and other migrants, too; for the night sky is filled with travelers when birds fly south. Bird Stories

Young veeries and bobolinks, song sparrows and warblers, who build low, apparently take leave of the nursery as soon they can stand up. Little Brothers of the Air

Among the rarer birds which are now on the market to compensate us may be mentioned the bobolink, the dwarf cassowary, the Bombay duckling and the skewbald fintail. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914

Handsomely, illustrated and containing full instructions for the management and training of the canary, mocking-bird, bobolink, blackbird, paroquet, parrot, etc., etc. Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys

The bluebird is the true voice of early spring, as is the bobolink of later spring. The Chief End of Man

The flock of them had gathered in tree-tops and flooded the day with such mellow, laughing melodies as the world can have only in springtime—and only as long as the bobolinks last. Bird Stories

We were too much delighted to be annoyed by his teasing; a bobolink's nest we never hoped to see. Little Brothers of the Air

"I wish I could catch a bobolink," said Samuel. Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks

It is a small bird, a little larger than the bobolink and of much the same shape. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9

“Don’t bother, I tell you,” I cried viciously; and there was another pause, during which Pomp made a low whistling noise, which was not such a very bad imitation of the bobolink. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah

Days long before that, when elephants trod upon that ground, did those great beasts hear the spring song of the bobolinks? Bird Stories

While we lingered there, I looked with my glass back at the bobolinks, and chanced to see Bobby himself in the act of diving into the grass. Little Brothers of the Air

I read of bobolinks being sold at bird-stores in the city for two or three dollars each. Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks

Not many now find "the meadows spattered all over with music" by the bobolink, as Thoreau did. Bird Day; How to prepare for it

The tiger lily, the sweet Williams, the pinks, together with the luxuriant meadows and the bobolinks, were left behind. The Eagle's Heart

Something that had called to his father and to his grandfather and to all his ancestors, ever since bobolinks first flew from North America to South America once every year. Bird Stories

The quality of the music, too, was strikingly like bobolink notes, and the whole performance was exquisite. Little Brothers of the Air

The bobolink swung from the highest branches, and poured out his ecstatic feelings in thrilling song. Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks

A careful exploration of the country within a radius of five miles resulted in the discovery of only two pairs of bobolinks, having their nests luckily in the same field. Bird Day; How to prepare for it

The yearly loss to rice-growers from bobolinks has been estimated at two million dollars. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation

There we are not called bobolinks and the people of the South never listen for our songs. Stories of Birds

One knows where to look for sparrows and thrushes and bobolinks and warblers and flycatchers. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers

Ware had evidently come under protest, for he lingered in the daisied grass which was dappled with shadows and tinkling with bobolinks and catbirds. Wayside Courtships

It is currently reported that a million bobolinks were destroyed in Pennsylvania alone last year to satisfy the demand of the milliners. Bird Day; How to prepare for it

Mockingbirds and linnets thrilled the glad air with warblings; gold finches, thrushes and bobolinks trilled their happiest tunes; and the oriole sang a lullaby to her hanging cradle that rocked in the wind. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales

I, alas, was not the only bobolink who admired her. Stories of Birds

The leaves were fluttering to each other, the grasses sweeping up and down, the bobolinks hopping by the meadow path. Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land And Other Stories

She was sunny as a dandelion and gay as a bobolink. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

Is it cheery, like the robin's, or tuneful, like the thrush's, or rollicking and rapturous, like the bobolink's, or a Romanza, like the catbird's? Bird Day; How to prepare for it

And a waggish old squirrel, who had heard the conversation, asked the bobolink how he could expect any one to like beautiful things who looked out of such great staring eyes. Queer Stories for Boys and Girls

"It is in this field," said the bobolink. Stories of Birds

The breath of the apple blossoms filled the room, and a bobolink, poised on a branch outside the window, suddenly poured a rapturous song into the silence of the sweet spring day. Under the Trees and Elsewhere

She might as well have shaken it at a bobolink tilting on a clover top. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

There on the very topmost twig, that rises and falls with willowy motion, sits that ridiculous, sweet-singing bobolink, singing as a Roman candle fizzes, showers of sparkling notes.—Ibid. Bird Day; How to prepare for it

But she looked dully on the seas of ripe grasses, tangled and flashing with dew, out of which the bobolinks and larks sprang. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891

"I at last have won my wife," sang the bobolink. Stories of Birds

The bobolink chatters in notes of perfection, The oriole sings a love-song to his mate, The whippoorwill clings to his perch for protection, The crow laughs ha! ha! when the evening grows late. Our Profession and Other Poems

I know the forest's changeful tongue That talketh all the day with me: I trill in every bobolink's song, And every brooklet bears along My greeting to the chainless sea! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864

All poets have been their lovers, from the psalmist of old, who knew "all the birds of the mountains," to our own Lowell with his "Gladness on wings—the bobolink is here." Bird Day; How to prepare for it

If there is any sweeter sound Than bobolinks or thrushes, It is the frou-frou of their silks— The roll of their barouches. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.)

She seemed to me the most beautiful bobolink that ever was. Stories of Birds

You will find the bobolink's nest in a hay-field or down among the red clover. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls

"It is like passing sweet meadows alive with bobolinks." Cheerfulness as a Life Power

We never became so intimately acquainted with the bobolinks as with the thrushes, for they lived far out on the broad Fox River meadows, while the thrushes sang on the tree-tops around every home. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

On summer days he never overflows with the rollicksomeness of bobolink and oriole, but takes his abundance in quiet contentment. Ways of Wood Folk

"My little mate is calling," gurgled the bobolink, flying away and leaving the grass-top swaying wildly. Stories of Birds

The bobolink of the north is a sweet singer and is pretty in his black and white feathers with a touch of yellow at the back of his head. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls

And this is why all the world loves little children, who are always ready to have 'a sunshine party,'—little children bubbling over with fun, as a bobolink with song. Cheerfulness as a Life Power

The bobolinks rallied them up from the dell, The orioles whistled them out of the wood; And all of their singing was, "Earth, it is well!" More Songs From Vagabondia

Bobolink: If Lowell had a favorite bird, it was the bobolink, although the oriole was a close competitor for his praises. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.

Flutter, flutter, on bustling-wings, All the plump little feathered things: Thrush and bobolink, finch and jay, Follow the sun on his holiday. The Nursery, No. 169, January, 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

It seemed a long way off at first, but gradually came nearer and nearer, tuneful and clear as the song of a bobolink. The Black Pearl

No matter what the species of bird—whether crow, bobolink, thrush or sparrow, the song or call is so exactly imitated as to deceive the most experienced naturalist, and even various birds themselves. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making

"But there is no comparison between the usual tomboy whistle of girls, and those bobolink, canary-bird notes that come from your lips," said an enthusiastic member. Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces

In one of his letters he says: "I think the bobolink the best singer in the world, even undervaluing the lark and the nightingale in the comparison." The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.

The birds in Burmah, though of gay plumage, have little melody in their song; splendid as they are, we would scarce exchange for them our cheerful robin and merry bobolink. Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons

One by one they discontinue their lays, until at high noon the bobolink and the warbling flycatcher are almost the only vocalists to be heard in the fields. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader

The Frenchman has a tongue like a bobolink,—pleasant to hear. Montlivet

Link, link, bobolink!' he sang all day long, instead of crying in the way a loon usually does. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories

"Shelley and Wordsworth," says Mr. Brownell, "have not more worthily immortalized the skylark than Lowell has the bobolink, its New England congener." The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.

By the time Alice Parlin was three years old she could prattle like a bobolink, and thought herself quite as old and wise as either of her sisters. Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple

The grass finches, the vireos, the wrens, and the linnets have joined their voices to the chorus, and the bobolinks are loudest in their song. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader

Mr. Bryant makes fun of the bobolink, and turns into an aimless whistle the solemn oration on domestic matters uttered by that small but energetic American to his mate. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118

Link, link, bobolink! cried the crazy loon as he went out the door. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories

In certain sections a cat has been known to destroy six nests of orioles, thrushes and bobolinks in a single day. Outdoor Sports and Games

"But supposing it wasn't a canary," said Polly hesitatingly; "supposing it might be a redbird, or a wren, or—or——" "Or a bobolink?" Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird

He was like an unreasoning bobolink, or hawk, or fawn, or wolf. A Man and a Woman

Every June morning when you go out into the field, oriole and bluebird and blackbird and bobolink will fly after you and make the day more delightful to you. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

Link, link, bobolink! cried the crazy loon as they went in the door. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories

In May the principal birds of our neighbourhood will return—thrushes, vireos, tanagers, grosbeaks, bobolinks, orioles. Outdoor Sports and Games

Without exactly knowing why, we took alarm, and larks, bobolinks, and cowbirds sped upward like the wind. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird

They trilled and piped and whistled With the thrush and bobolink, Till the kine in listless pause, Switched their tails in mute applause, With lifted heads and dreamy eyes, And bubble-dripping jaws. Afterwhiles

Blackbirds, which have now returned from the South, sing in chorus on the adjacent ditch-banks, mingling their harsh notes with the lively songs of myriads of bobolinks, while high overhead whistles the plover. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885

The loon who was a very large bird, was crazy, and thought he was a bobolink. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories

In one month a million bobolinks were killed near Philadelphia. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him

I was very glad to know that we bobolinks were to travel only in the daytime, as that would afford us younger ones a better opportunity to see the country. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird

June sang in the whistle of the robin swinging on the elm and the cherry, and the gushing warble of the bobolink tumbling, and darting, and fluttering in the warm meadow. Trumps

In the reeds of the meadow the stag lifts his branchy head stately and listens, And the bobolink, perched on the flag, her ear sidelong bends to the chorus. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems

Link, link, bobolink! he kept on singing from morning till night. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories

The happiest bird of our spring, however, and one that rivals the European lark in my estimation, is the boblincoln, or bobolink as he is commonly called. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader

A hard-cash customer was about as common as bobolinks in December. The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play

The birds sang in the trees beyond—the bobolinks gushed in the meadows below. Trumps

Lo my voice recalls the robin, Brings the bobolink and bluebird, And the woods are full of music. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems

Link, link, bobolink! sang the crazy loon when Toby and his bride entered the house. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories

This is the chosen season of revelry of the bobolink. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader

The orioles were flaming in the old orchards; the bobolinks were tossing themselves about in the long meadows of timothy, daisies, and patches of clover. Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas

One likes to be reminded that there are still bobolinks in the world, for they have deserted many spots which they once favored. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

Listen to the bobolinks, telling you 'tis May! The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875

His voice was not anywhere near the right pitch for a bobolink's song, but that made no difference. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories

Of all the birds of our groves and meadows, the bobolink was the envy of my boyhood. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader

The brooks began to gossip; the birds poured out their hearts in song, and the dumb trees expressed their joy in leaves "The bobolink, on the mullein-stalk, Would rattle away like a sweet girl's talk." Little Prudy's Sister Susy

The bul-bul is as much of a favorite in the Herat Valley as is robin red-breast in rural England, or the bobolink in America. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama

Listen to the bobolinks, telling you 'tis May! The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875

We skip lightheartedly round the house to see if those bobolink bulbs we planted are showing any signs yet, and discover the whisk brush that fell out of the window last November. Mince Pie

Bobolink, bobolink, Spink, spank, spink, Look what a nice new coat is mine; Sure, there was never a bird so fine. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader

O bluebirds and bobolinks! what would be May Without your glad presence,—the songs that you sing us, And all the sweet nothings we fancy you say? Voices for the Speechless

The bobolinks at noonday sing More softly than the softest flute, And lightlier than the lightest lute Their fairy tambours ring. Lyrics of Earth

Hear the merry children, shouting as they play, "Listen to the bobolinks, telling us 'tis May!" The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875

From its highest tier of a summer morning the notes of the bobolink came rushing off his lyre, and farther down the golden robin sounded his piccolo. Darrel of the Blessed Isles

Such is the story of the bobolink; once spiritual, musical, admired, the joy of the meadows, and the favorite bird of spring; finally, a gross little sensualist, who expiates his sensuality in the larder. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader

When they chatter together,—the robins and sparrows, Bluebirds and bobolinks,—all the day long; What do they talk of? Voices for the Speechless

And our bobolink would be as easily acclimatised in Europe. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's

These bobolinks timed their southward migration so as to descend upon the fields in myriads when the grain was "in the milk." American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime

Christopher Pearse Cranch calls the bobolink: Still merriest of the merry birds, and Pied harlequins of June. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

How surprised the school-children looked, to be sure, when the Doctor of Divinity from the city tried to sentimentalize, in addressing them, about "the bobolink in the woods"! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861

I haven't heard a bobolink for—I'm not going to bother to think how long. Polly and the Princess

The bobolinks build in considerable numbers in a meadow within a quarter of a mile of us. My Garden Acquaintance

This fusillade checked but could not wholly prevent the bobolink ravages. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime

The bobolinks danced and chattered on stumps and fences, in an agony of suspense, when their nests were approached, and cried pitifully if they were destroyed. At the Foot of the Rainbow

"I could change YOU into a fly, or a crocodile, or a bobolink, if I wanted to; but fairies can't change themselves into anything else." The Enchanted Island of Yew

A flouting bobolink flew from stake to stake in front of her, and bubbled out in melody. Tiverton Tales

We have no bird whose song will match the nightingale's in compass, none whose note is so rich as that of the European blackbird; but for mere rapture I have never heard the bobolink's rival. My Garden Acquaintance

The robins sang remorselessly in the apple-tree, and were answered by bobolink, oriole, and a whole tribe of ignorant little bits of feathered happiness that danced among the leaves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859

Off to my right, in a piece of rank grass, where branches of dock had sprung up, bobolinks were swinging the pale, green sprays, filling the air with melody. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884

Bending above this, she relieved the wait by merry, lilting tunes like the music of a bobolink, while Kitty fidgetted in and out, the puckers in her forehead every minute growing deeper. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day

Once in a while the species was plainly distinguishable; I could make out the bobolink, tanager, Wilson's thrush, white-crown'd sparrow, and occasionally from high in the air came the notes of the plover. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

Names of objects like "bobolink" and "raven" may affect us emotionally by the quality of their tone. A Study of Poetry

Gabriel has a beautiful voice cut low in the neck, and sings like a joyous bobolink in the dew-saturated mead. Remarks

The exuberance of the last-named, so unlike anything else in Bryant's book of verse, may be explained on the assumption that not even a Puritan could pull a long face in presence of a bobolink. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

I have heard a bobolink and a hermit thrush with similar defects of voice. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton

How sweetly sang the bobolink, When thou, my love, wast nigh! Dreams and Days: Poems

I was running it when the bobolinks came to Dearborn and they always come on April 2nd. My Life and Work

How sweetly sang the bobolink, When thou, my Love, wast nigh! Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems

As for me, I sat here and there, on hillocks and stones, among ferns, and white cornels, and honey-bees, and bobolinks. Saxe Holm's Stories

The term has been applied very loosely in this country to both the meadow- lark and the bobolink, yet it is pretty generally understood now that we have no genuine skylark east of the Mississippi. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton

She was as ignorant of the pang which went like an arrow through his heart at the sight of her as the bobolink which whirrs and chitters and tweedles over a grave. Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England

The bobolink, which is one of the first to become silent, continues vocal until the second week in July. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858

If the thrushes and bobolinks could sing human music, and put human feeling into it, her voice would beat 'em all. A Romance of the Republic

There was a little pause, and then a strain of perfect jubilation came leaping along the wire, like the flying song of the bobolink over tracts of blowing clover and apple-blossoms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858

You will find in his poems the wood pewee, the bluebird, the oriole, the robin, the grouse, the kingfisher, the chipmunk, the mink, the bobolink, the wood thrush, all in their proper places. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton

Diana was in one of those paroxysms of young girl frolic which are the effervescence of young, healthy blood, as natural as the gyrations of a bobolink on a clover head. Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England

Hence those birds that raise but one brood of young during the season, like the bobolink, are the first to become silent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858

A voice, joyous as a bobolink's, sounded apparently from the garden. A Romance of the Republic

The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study

A catbird will sometimes show a special genius for mimicry, and I have known one to suggest very plainly some notes of the bobolink. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton

And it always stands the test—the test of being read out in the daisy-flecked meadows with rollicking bobolinks overhead. Our Friend John Burroughs

I do not know a single brightly-plumed bird that nestles upon the ground, unless the bobolink may be considered an exception. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858

I hear the note of a bobolink concealed in the top of an apple tree behind me…. History of American Literature

The bobolinks rallied them up from the dell, The orioles whistled them out of the wood; And all of their saying was, "Earth, it is well!" Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study

The bobolink is also a precipitate and impetuous wooer. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton

With the bobolinks and the swallows, with singing groves, and musical winds, with June,—ah, yes! with tender, succulent, gorgeous June,—all things are blessed. Our Friend John Burroughs

Indeed, they were degenerating into shameless gourmands, and losing the grace of song, as were also the bobolinks in the meadows. Nature's Serial Story

The bobolink follows you and circles above and in advance of you, and is ready to give you a triumphal exit from the field, if you will only depart. Locusts and Wild Honey

Johnny, and the lady will sing to you like a bobolink,' called Jimmy, as proud as Barnum showing off Jumbo. A Garland for Girls

In his poem on the bobolink he makes the parent birds feed their young with "seeds," whereas, in fact, the young are fed exclusively upon insects and worms. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton

The bobolink and the swallow Have left for other clime— They mind the sun when he beckons And go with summer's prime. Our Friend John Burroughs

It is said to be very useful in the Southern rice-fields, since, as it sails low, it interrupts the flocks of bobolinks, or rice-birds, in their depredations. Nature's Serial Story

His note is rasping and harsh, in point of melody, when compared with the bobolink's. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

I am going to take you out to see my stream and my bobolink to-day. King Midas: a Romance

The bobolink is an insectivorous bird in the North, or until its brood has flown, and a granivorous bird in the South. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton

The bubbling ecstasy of a bobolink floated above the grasses of a meadow, and near at hand a wren hopped about in the alders and chirped dozy notes. The Landloper

In the meadows the bobolink is in all his glory; in the high pastures the field sparrow sings his breezy vesper-hymn; and the woods are unfolding to the music of the thrushes. Wake-Robin

The bobolink has no mate or parallel in any part of the world. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

And I'm sure that was the same bobolink! King Midas: a Romance

If we could all read the lives of our gentians and bobolinks as he did, there would be more true poetry in America. Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier

Old Hannah was waxing sentimental, and with a heightened bloom upon her cheeks Maude left her to her memories of Crockett and the bobolinks, while she went back to her lover. Cousin Maude

In his account of the bobolink he makes a point of the fact that, in returning south in the fall, they do not travel by night as they do when moving north in the spring. Wake-Robin

I never could make out what the bobolink says in New Jersey, but in certain districts in this State his enunciation is quite distinct. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

They don't have any bobolinks in Germany, and so that one was the first I have heard in three years. King Midas: a Romance

Only the chink of the bobolinks bound for the plains of the Orinoco or the chonk, chonking of ground squirrels broke the silence. See America First

Yet he watched men as keenly as he did "laylocks" and bobolinks, and no shrewder American essay has been written than his "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners." The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters

I make out the snowbird, the bobolink, the warblers, and on two nights during the early part of May I heard very clearly the call of the sandpipers. Wake-Robin

We know April will bring the robins and May the bobolinks, but we do not know that either they or any other month will bring the passenger pigeon. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

At present a shower had just passed and the bobolink may have thought that another dawn had come; or perhaps he saw the maiden. King Midas: a Romance

When I was a boy neither the black-throated green warbler nor the purple finch nested around us, nor were bobolinks found in our fields. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

I judge that the bobolink escapes the dangers to which I have adverted as few or no other birds do. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers

Instead of the bobolink, one encounters here, in the June meadows, the black-throated bunting, a bird very closely related to the sparrows and a very persistent if not a very musical songster. Wake-Robin

By the time the bobolink reaches the Potomac, in September, he has degenerated into a game-bird that is slaughtered by tens of thousands in the marshes. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

She did not see him, for her eyes were lifted to a little bobolink that had come flying down the wind. King Midas: a Romance

The black-throated green warbler is now one of our commonest summer warblers; there are plenty of purple finches; and, best of all, the bobolinks are far from infrequent. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

Her head throbbed dangerously. what matter to her that the king bird pitched jovially from the maples to catch a wandering bluebottle fly, that the robin was feeding its young, that the bobolink was singing? Main-Travelled Roads

You are walking forth in the soft morning air, when suddenly there comes a burst of bobolink melody form some mysterious source. Wake-Robin

At the approach of the breeding season the bobolink undergoes a complete change; his form changes, his color changes, his flight changes. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

The bobolink came an' the wife o' the same An' the lark an' the fiddle de dee. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country

The bobolinks rallied them up from the dell, The orioles whistled them out of the wood; And all of their saying was, "Earth, it is well!" The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3

"But the road sometimes passes a rich meadow, where the songs o/ larks and bobolinks and blackbirds are tangled." Main-Travelled Roads

And the bobolinks are hovering over the low spots. The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment

I have noticed that the bobolink does not sing the same in different localities. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

The morning air was sweet with the odour of new hay and the music of the bobolink. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country

After a year, and at the beginning of the normal breeding season, "individual tanagers and bobolinks were gradually brought under normal conditions and activities," and in every case moulted from nuptial plumage to nuptial plumage. Darwin and Modern Science

Perhaps none of our birds have so fitted into song and story as the bobolink. Bird Neighbors

Subdued, yet clear, with each note as true and liquid as a bobolink's, his whistle tinkled about the dim, cold mountains of brick like drops of rain falling into a hidden pool. Roads of Destiny

It is said that the mockingbird is dumb in the presence of the bobolink. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

Fear not, pretty bobolink, Sing your joyous song, Never will I trouble you, Sing, the whole day long. Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories

The bobolink has an unusually full throat, which may help account for his great power of song. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

But it has been reserved for a practical ornithologist, Mr. Wilson Flagg, to write by far the best poem on the bobolink that I have yet seen. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

"Don't you know," says bobolink, As he shakes his head, That my nest is hidden in This soft grassy bed? Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories

The lark is a more marvelous songster than the bobolink only on account of his soaring flight and the sustained copiousness of his song. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

Pretty little bobolink In your satin coat, Trimmed with white across the neck Black about the throat, Why so angry do you seem? Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories

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New atlas of bird migration shows extraordinary journeys 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z On a recent day, during a public tour of Freshkills, bald eagles soared over the wetlands while bobolinks sang from electrical wires. Where Coyotes, Foxes and Bobolinks Find a New Home: Freshkills Park 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z A news release from Tucker County Convention and Visitors Bureau said species likely to be seen include bobolinks, scarlet tanagers and Baltimore and orchard orioles. Birding festival set for next month at Canaan Valley Resort 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The Tucker County Convention and Visitors Bureau says in a news release that species likely to be seen during the walks include bobolinks, scarlet tanagers and northern waterthrush. Bird watchers to flock to Canaan Valley for annual festival 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z “The main one is the bobolink,” park district Naturalist Linda Gilbert said. New habitat takes root above old Ohio landfill 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Since the program began five years ago, flocks of 50 or more bobolinks, a threatened species in the state, have been counted at the site. Green Blog: A Crop Dividend: Restored Bird Habitat in N.J. 2012-09-10T18:40:03Z Other new breeding species include the eastern meadowlark, known for its sharp call; the blue grosbeak, a striking blue relative of the cardinal; and the bobolink, a bumblebee-colored blackbird that migrates 12,500 miles annually. Where Coyotes, Foxes and Bobolinks Find a New Home: Freshkills Park 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z We will ask the goldfinches, the mocking-birds, the bobolinks, the phœbe and chickadee families, all of the warbler and vireo families, and the robins of course. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z "Anyhow, we'll know all about it in about two and a half flicks of a bobolink's tail," said Billy Worth, "for if that church spire up over the trees yonder isn't Sagersgrove, I'm blind." The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z A bobolink flitted across the road, dropping a whole sheaf of silver notes from his joyous throat. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z Skunk′-bird, -black′bird, the male bobolink in full plumage. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The other day," commenced daddy, "the bobolinks had an afternoon tea. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z There's something in the apple-blossom, The greening grass and bobolink's song, That wakes again within my bosom Feelings which have slumbered long. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z It goes North as the bobolink and goes South as the reedbird or ricebird. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z A bobolink's bubbling carol is unthinkable in a jungle, and the strain of a wood pewee on a sunny hillside would be like an organ playing dance-music. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Such a rollicking, jolly singer is the bobolink! Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The bobolinks are great friends of the meadow larks and they wanted to be the first this season to entertain them. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z The bobolink perched himself on the top of that new flagpole, and perhaps his trilled notes were a co-mingling of praise and good wishes. The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills 2011-11-17T03:00:34.720Z We saw the lark and the cowslip and the rest on the printed page with one eye, the bobolink and the buttercup, and so on, with the other in nature. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z And there is a bobolink, who flies around announcing his own name, and a tiny bird that says, ‘Phebe, Phebe;’ for in the country the birds can talk.” In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z A score or more of bobolinks rising in some open meadow all day long, are worth travelling miles to hear. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z And so the bobolinks made all their preparations for the tea party. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z "The bobolinks have come" is as joyful a proclamation as announces the return of the bluebird and robin. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The robins and bobolinks were not invited, because they were such gluttons. Minnie; or, The Little Woman A Fairy Story 2011-07-18T02:00:19.717Z I thought I heard the notes of a bobolink, but it turned out to be the mocking-bird, who seemed intent on singing down all the others. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z As early as the Fourth of July, bobolinks begin to desert the choir, being the first birds to leave us. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z After they had all chatted together—to us it would have sounded more like chirping—the bobolinks began to serve tea. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z Summer still burns with unabated fervor, when we suddenly realize that there are no bobolinks. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z He or she who is swelled full of conjecture whenever anybody commits an innocent indiscretion, as an owl blinks and ruffles up its feathers when the bobolink sings. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks, and thrushes, which were not charged in the bill. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z The bobolink is a rollicking, jolly fellow; the grackle is solemn, even morose. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z That gave it the most delicious flavor, and all the birds asked the bobolinks where they had found such good tea. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z Early in the morning, when we first reached the pond, the bobolinks were rising and singing all over the lower water meadows, and the mists were turning to silver in the early 110 sunlight. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z A bobolink left the bloom of a tree To tell her tale of whimsical glee; The moon dropped a pearl to wear in her breast; Dawn wove her a cloak of silvery mist. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Now and then a bobolink, an oriole, or a scarlet tanager would be seen. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Fancy a cousin of the musical bobolink behaving so! Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Besides, most of the bobolinks had new summer homes and their colony was near a beautiful stream. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z When we came up from the bog in the late afternoon the bobolinks were silent, but a mother sand-peep wheeled and cried about the field, afraid that we would find her chickens. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Gay little Goldenhead lived within a town Full of busy bobolinks, flitting up and down, Pretty neighbor buttercups, cosy auntie clovers, And shy groups of daisies, all whispering like lovers. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z While full and jubilant and clear, All the long day, from dawn till dark, The trill of bobolink we hear, Of hermit thrush and meadowlark. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z On the way, a great transformation has gradually taken place in the male bobolink's dress. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z You know the bobolinks always build their homes in the meadows—but they build very near a stream and their homes are always deep down in the long grass. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z In the meadows the bobolink is in all his glory; in the high pastures the field-sparrow sings his breezy vesper-hymn; and the woods are unfolding to the music of the thrushes. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z Gay little Goldenhead fair and fairer grew, Fed on flecks of sunshine, and sips of balmy dew, Swinging on her slender foot all the happy day, Chattering with bobolinks, gossips of the May. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Of Bobolink.—Prepare and clean twelve bobolinks as directed for birds, put a teaspoonful of truffles, cut in small dice, in each bird, for stuffing; sew the incision, and bake or roast the birds. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z Some, like the bobolinks, travel to the tropics and beyond every winter; others, like the meadowlark, can endure the intense cold of the North. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The meadows were very large and the grass was so beautiful and so long that it always waved in the soft breezes, so that the bobolinks named their new summer place Waving Grassland. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z You are walking forth in the soft morning air, when suddenly there comes a burst of bobolink melody from some mysterious source. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z The fields beyond have been brought back to a good state of cultivation and present a beautiful green tract beyond which stretch rich meadows with waving grass where flit the bobolink and the red-winged blackbird. Remodeled Farmhouses Drink pups drink pups lease a sash hold, see it shine and a bobolink has pins. Geography and Plays Like them and the bobolink, the woodpeckers prop themselves by their outspread, stiffened tails. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z He's spry, yet he's steady too; and he sings like a bobolink, though his songs are most dreadful as to words. East Angels I make out the snow-bird, the bobolink, the warblers, and on two nights during the early part of May I heard very clearly the call of the sandpipers. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z He missed the bobolink, the seaside finch, and the marsh wren, but his woods and grounds abounded in other species. Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt To be part of the robin's lilting call And part of the bobolink's rhyme. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The chickadee, phoebe, peewee, towhee, whip-poor-will and bobolink, who tell their names less plainly than he, save every child who tries to know them much trouble. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Time passed on, from time to time, glad spring, and bobolinks, and light underwear succeeded stern winter, frost, and heavy flannels, and yet he cometh not, she sayed. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories Instead of the bobolink, one encounters here, in the June meadows, the black-throated bunting, a bird closely related to the sparrows, and a very persistent, if not a very musical songster. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z Nothing to her but foam and frisk,—no heart more than a bobolink! The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine When the stage-horses stopped to walk, you could hear the crows caw, and the bobolinks singing, in the meadows. The Life of Nancy The particular bush that hid my chewink babies had to be marked, as one would mark the special tuft of grass that hides a bobolink's nest. Upon The Tree-Tops The bobolinks, perfectly unrecognizable in plain brown coats, continue to flock sparrow-wise about the meadows until say, the tenth. Old Plymouth Trails Woodpigeon, bobolink, bluebird, oriole, cooed and trilled and warbled from the bush all around. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement “If he heard a bobolink singing, he’d ask whether it was good to eat.” The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold A bobolink, swaying on a weed stalk near by, answered Sherm’s chirrup to the ponies with a volley of golden notes. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John Under the deep grass of the meadow dwelt bobolinks and meadow larks; from the pasture rose the silver threadlike song of the savanna sparrow and the martial note of the kingbird. Upon The Tree-Tops In the meadows the bobolink is in all his glory; in the high pastures the field sparrow sings his breezy vesper hymn; and the woods are unfolding to the music of the thrushes. Eighth Reader On one occasion, the third morning after my arrival, a bobolink appeared with a new note in his song. Ways of Nature Does Shelley interpret the skylark, or Wordsworth the cuckoo, or Bryant the bobolink, or Whitman the mockingbird and the thrush? Under the Maples Out of its fragrant heart of bloom,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems They scattered over the meadow, and while I trembled for meadow lark and bobolink babies, I hoped they would not see me; but one of them came directly to the thorn-tree. Upon The Tree-Tops Lord! how the birds sing now around the manor––screech owls, cat-birds, bobolinks!” The Strollers Maybe it was the beginning of a variation that will in time result in an entirely new bobolink song. Ways of Nature One thinks of the bobolink as singing almost habitually on the wing. Under the Maples Out of its fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, “Why art thou but a nest of gloom, While the bobolinks are singing?” Poems It is bad enough to doom the bobolink to the pot after he has changed his coat and become a reedbird, and given some reason for his fate by his unfortunate fondness for rice. Upon The Tree-Tops We love the mellow notes of the woodthrush, and of the veery, the clear, rollicking outpourings of the bobolink, the musical love song of the brown thrasher, the cheerful scolding of the wren. The Meaning of Evolution "What a contrast," I thought, "between the voice of the spluttering, tongue-tied lark, and the free, liquid, and varied song of the bobolink!" Ways of Nature In early summer the bobolink perches there, then tiptoes, or tip-wings, away to the meadows below, pouring out his ecstatic song. Under the Maples The two wan ghosts of the chamber there,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems After a time he went away, and nobody thought any thing about him, till dinner-time, when, what should they see coming up the piazza steps, but Boney, with a bobolink in his mouth! Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Our bobolink, so well known and loved by all watchers of spring migrations, passes twice a year between the latitude of New York and Rio Janeiro. The Meaning of Evolution Nearly every May I am seized with an impulse to go back to the scenes of my youth, and hear the bobolinks in the home meadows once more. Ways of Nature We were not after their eggs, however, for we had all the bobolinks' eggs we wanted, carefully blown and laid away in our collection. Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The two wan ghosts of the chamber there Cease in the breath of the honeyed air, Sweep from the room and leave it bare, While the bobolinks are singing. Poems Ringing, Ringing, Song of the blue-bird and bobolink’s call, Singing, Singing, Up in this beautiful world are they all! Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Snipes and plover, orioles and ovenbirds, bobolinks and meadow-larks, all had lived in it by turns for a few days. The Biography of a Prairie Girl The songs of bobolinks differ in different localities, but those of the same locality always sing alike. Ways of Nature In my sabbath walks along the beautiful country roads, I heard again the song of the cat-bird and the trill of the bobolink. A Son of the Middle Border Then with a breath so chill and slow,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems Bluebirds, and robins, and bobolinks, how glad they were! Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad But the snipes and plover had gone into a decline, the orioles and ovenbirds had grown thin and unkempt, and the bobolinks and meadow-larks had eaten themselves to death. The Biography of a Prairie Girl When the southern savannas were planted with rice, the bobolinks soon found that this food suited them. Ways of Nature It must have been still in the warm September weather for we climbed the slender leafy trees and swayed and swung on their tip-tops like bobolinks. A Son of the Middle Border Then with a breath so chill and slow, It freezes the blossoms into snow, The haunted room makes answer low, While the bobolinks are singing. Poems The bobolink laughs in the meadow; The wild waves laugh on the sea; They sparkle and glance, they dimple and dance, And are merry as waves can be. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad He discovers that the bobolink goes south in the night. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 The bobolinks, like flashes of black and white, skimmed over it as they sang. Bobby of Cloverfield Farm The bobolinks sail and tinkle in the sensuous hush, now sinking, now rising, their exquisite notes filling the air as with the sound of fairy bells. A Son of the Middle Border I know that in the meadow-land The sorrowful, slender elm-trees stand, And the brook goes by on the other hand, While the bobolinks are singing. Poems She was like a plump, saucy, sweet-throated bobolink, perched on a swaying bough and singing a joyous and daring “catch me if you can.” With Hoops of Steel Here, perched upon a fence-rail, in the shadow of an elm, I gazed at the snow-crowned Mount Washington range, while the bobolinks and savanna sparrows made music on every side. Birds in the Bush It only shows," remarked the bobolink, "how greatly those humans admire us birds. Policeman Bluejay The whole is concealed by its very openness, and as hard to find, as the bobolink's cradle in the trackless grass of the meadow. A Bird-Lover in the West But ever I see, in the brawling stream,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems The thrasher is silent in the berry pasture, and the bobolink in the meadow. The Foot-path Way The song of the bobolinks dropped from above, and the microphonic tune of the sparrows came up from the grass,—sky and earth keeping holiday together. Birds in the Bush We followed the ups and downs of the road for a mile, passing a meadow full of bobolinks, "Bubbling rapturously, madly," climbed by a grass-grown wood road a mountain-side pasture, and reached the forest. Little Brothers of the Air In the monotonous stretches of this shrub, each plant of which looks exactly like every other, dwelt many shy birds, as well hidden as bobolinks in the meadow grass, or meadow-larks in the alfalfa. A Bird-Lover in the West But ever I see in the brawling stream A maiden drowned and floating dim, Under the water, like a dream, While the bobolinks are singing. Poems I had never heard the nesting song of a bobolink before. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine Every one that knew the bobolink in its summer home in the North insisted that this beautiful singer must be protected. Conservation Reader Expressing himself was so great a relief to my bobolink, after his unnatural gravity of demeanor, that he repeated the performance again and again. Little Brothers of the Air It was up a shady country lane, with a meadow-lark field on one side, and a bobolink meadow on the other. A Bird-Lover in the West Wind, blow over her soft and bland, While the bobolinks are singing. Poems But I only got this bobolink last night. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine Hardly has the bobolink donned his first full dress before an irresistible impulse seizes him. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year A bobolink sailed over my face, not three feet from it, singing his merriest, and then dropped into the grass behind me. Little Brothers of the Air The river winds swept over the meadows in green waves, where the bobolinks toppled in the joy of their songs. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin O blow, but stir not the ghastly thing,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems Ah, to my untried, youthful eyes those fresh great hay-fields, whitening with ox-eyed daisies, reddening with sweet-scented clover and streaked golden with vivid yellow butter-cups, over which the song-convulsed bobolinks hovered on arcuate wings! When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine A young bob-white and a bobolink are hatched in the same New England field. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Were they busy in the grass with bobolink babies? and did they enjoy the music as keenly as I did? Little Brothers of the Air Half the delight of a bobolink is that he is more synthetic, more of a poet, than other birds,—has a duet in his throat. The Lost Art of Reading O blow, but stir not the ghastly thing The farmer saw so heavily swing From the elm, one merry morn of spring, While the bobolinks were singing. Poems The larks, and bobolinks, and red-wings made every meadow riotous with song, and the ever-alert king-birds and flickers flew along from post to post as if to have a part in the celebration. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West I judge that the bobolink escapes the dangers to which nesting birds are liable as few or no other birds do. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs Not merely once did he honor me, but again and again without pausing, as if he intended to fill me as full of bobolink rapture as he was himself. Little Brothers of the Air Even the bobolink is cosmic, if he sings with room enough; and when the heart wakes, the song of the cricket is infinite. The Lost Art of Reading O blow, and blow away the bloom,–– The bobolinks are singing! Poems The bunting is about the size of the eastern bobolink, and bears some resemblance to that bird; but bobolink he is not, although sometimes mistaken for one, and even called by that name in Colorado. Birds of the Rockies Lo, my voice recalls the robin, Brings the bobolink and bluebird, And the woods are full of music. Indian Legends of Minnesota But when he had uttered his message he sank back into the grass, and I tore myself away from the bobolink meadow, and came home far richer and far happier than when I set out. Little Brothers of the Air It sees the bobolink’s nest, That no one else can discover, And the brooding mother-bird With the floating grass above her. Graded Memory Selections O blow, and blow away the bloom That sickens me in my heart of gloom, That sweetly sickens the haunted room, While the bobolinks are singing!” Poems I do not mean to say that our bunting never circles, but simply that such is not his ordinary habit, while sweeping in a circle or ellipse is the favorite pastime of the eastern bobolink. Birds of the Rockies Some people think that, besides the five senses given to a man, Nature gave one more to the bobolink—a sixth gift, called a "sense of direction." Bird Stories My acquaintance with the bobolink was resumed a year later in the lovely summer home of a friend in the Black River Country, within sight of the Adirondack hills. Little Brothers of the Air The bobolink is one of the first to leave us, though he does not start at once on his long journey. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes There the ways of things are very absurd; For a bobolink, or a yellow bird, Comes of its own accord, and sits On every knitting-needle that knits, And pipes and sings, As the rocker swings. On the Tree Top In fine, his song is of a different order from that of the bobolink, and, therefore, the comparison need be carried no further. Birds of the Rockies The names of some of the most important Stations that a bobolink, starting from Maine, should stop at on the way to Brazil and Paraguay, are Maryland, South Carolina, Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, and Venezuela. Bird Stories "Yes, bobolinks," said our guide; "and you had to wait for an old half-blind man to find them for you." Little Brothers of the Air So some morning we miss his cheerful call, and if we go to the meadow we shall not be able to see a single bobolink. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes But bobolink—he would flee In a fright—“A boy! see! see!” On the Tree Top Their gaudy plumage contrasted strongly with the sombre, spotted attire of the bobolinks. The Black Phantom What would you give to see this miracle—a bobolink flying through the night? Bird Stories It was delivered on the wing, and not in his usual wave-like manner of flight, but sailing slowly around and around, very much as a bobolink does, singing rapturously, without pause or break. Little Brothers of the Air Then, I caught him in my arms, kissed his velvet cheeks, chanked his fat neck, chuckled under his chin, and called him a bobolink; and he made all ring again with his merry bobolink laugh. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm She played such jolly tunes, she sang like a bird, and whistled like a bobolink, could play checkers and chess and fox and geese, and she brought Jim a backgammon board. A Little Girl in Old New York Your larks and bobolinks will be scared off by engines and smokestacks, and your flowers spoiled with soot. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Like a procession they go—the bobolinks and other migrants, too; for the night sky is filled with travelers when birds fly south. Bird Stories Young veeries and bobolinks, song sparrows and warblers, who build low, apparently take leave of the nursery as soon they can stand up. Little Brothers of the Air Among the rarer birds which are now on the market to compensate us may be mentioned the bobolink, the dwarf cassowary, the Bombay duckling and the skewbald fintail. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 Handsomely, illustrated and containing full instructions for the management and training of the canary, mocking-bird, bobolink, blackbird, paroquet, parrot, etc., etc. Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys The bluebird is the true voice of early spring, as is the bobolink of later spring. The Chief End of Man The flock of them had gathered in tree-tops and flooded the day with such mellow, laughing melodies as the world can have only in springtime—and only as long as the bobolinks last. Bird Stories We were too much delighted to be annoyed by his teasing; a bobolink's nest we never hoped to see. Little Brothers of the Air "I wish I could catch a bobolink," said Samuel. Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks It is a small bird, a little larger than the bobolink and of much the same shape. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 “Don’t bother, I tell you,” I cried viciously; and there was another pause, during which Pomp made a low whistling noise, which was not such a very bad imitation of the bobolink. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah Days long before that, when elephants trod upon that ground, did those great beasts hear the spring song of the bobolinks? Bird Stories While we lingered there, I looked with my glass back at the bobolinks, and chanced to see Bobby himself in the act of diving into the grass. Little Brothers of the Air I read of bobolinks being sold at bird-stores in the city for two or three dollars each. Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks Not many now find "the meadows spattered all over with music" by the bobolink, as Thoreau did. Bird Day; How to prepare for it The tiger lily, the sweet Williams, the pinks, together with the luxuriant meadows and the bobolinks, were left behind. The Eagle's Heart Something that had called to his father and to his grandfather and to all his ancestors, ever since bobolinks first flew from North America to South America once every year. Bird Stories The quality of the music, too, was strikingly like bobolink notes, and the whole performance was exquisite. Little Brothers of the Air The bobolink swung from the highest branches, and poured out his ecstatic feelings in thrilling song. Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks A careful exploration of the country within a radius of five miles resulted in the discovery of only two pairs of bobolinks, having their nests luckily in the same field. Bird Day; How to prepare for it The yearly loss to rice-growers from bobolinks has been estimated at two million dollars. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation There we are not called bobolinks and the people of the South never listen for our songs. Stories of Birds One knows where to look for sparrows and thrushes and bobolinks and warblers and flycatchers. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers Ware had evidently come under protest, for he lingered in the daisied grass which was dappled with shadows and tinkling with bobolinks and catbirds. Wayside Courtships It is currently reported that a million bobolinks were destroyed in Pennsylvania alone last year to satisfy the demand of the milliners. Bird Day; How to prepare for it Mockingbirds and linnets thrilled the glad air with warblings; gold finches, thrushes and bobolinks trilled their happiest tunes; and the oriole sang a lullaby to her hanging cradle that rocked in the wind. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales I, alas, was not the only bobolink who admired her. Stories of Birds The leaves were fluttering to each other, the grasses sweeping up and down, the bobolinks hopping by the meadow path. Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land And Other Stories She was sunny as a dandelion and gay as a bobolink. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Is it cheery, like the robin's, or tuneful, like the thrush's, or rollicking and rapturous, like the bobolink's, or a Romanza, like the catbird's? Bird Day; How to prepare for it And a waggish old squirrel, who had heard the conversation, asked the bobolink how he could expect any one to like beautiful things who looked out of such great staring eyes. Queer Stories for Boys and Girls "It is in this field," said the bobolink. Stories of Birds The breath of the apple blossoms filled the room, and a bobolink, poised on a branch outside the window, suddenly poured a rapturous song into the silence of the sweet spring day. Under the Trees and Elsewhere She might as well have shaken it at a bobolink tilting on a clover top. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know There on the very topmost twig, that rises and falls with willowy motion, sits that ridiculous, sweet-singing bobolink, singing as a Roman candle fizzes, showers of sparkling notes.—Ibid. Bird Day; How to prepare for it But she looked dully on the seas of ripe grasses, tangled and flashing with dew, out of which the bobolinks and larks sprang. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 "I at last have won my wife," sang the bobolink. Stories of Birds The bobolink chatters in notes of perfection, The oriole sings a love-song to his mate, The whippoorwill clings to his perch for protection, The crow laughs ha! ha! when the evening grows late. Our Profession and Other Poems I know the forest's changeful tongue That talketh all the day with me: I trill in every bobolink's song, And every brooklet bears along My greeting to the chainless sea! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 All poets have been their lovers, from the psalmist of old, who knew "all the birds of the mountains," to our own Lowell with his "Gladness on wings—the bobolink is here." Bird Day; How to prepare for it If there is any sweeter sound Than bobolinks or thrushes, It is the frou-frou of their silks— The roll of their barouches. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) She seemed to me the most beautiful bobolink that ever was. Stories of Birds You will find the bobolink's nest in a hay-field or down among the red clover. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls "It is like passing sweet meadows alive with bobolinks." Cheerfulness as a Life Power We never became so intimately acquainted with the bobolinks as with the thrushes, for they lived far out on the broad Fox River meadows, while the thrushes sang on the tree-tops around every home. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth On summer days he never overflows with the rollicksomeness of bobolink and oriole, but takes his abundance in quiet contentment. Ways of Wood Folk "My little mate is calling," gurgled the bobolink, flying away and leaving the grass-top swaying wildly. Stories of Birds The bobolink of the north is a sweet singer and is pretty in his black and white feathers with a touch of yellow at the back of his head. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls And this is why all the world loves little children, who are always ready to have 'a sunshine party,'—little children bubbling over with fun, as a bobolink with song. Cheerfulness as a Life Power The bobolinks rallied them up from the dell, The orioles whistled them out of the wood; And all of their singing was, "Earth, it is well!" More Songs From Vagabondia Bobolink: If Lowell had a favorite bird, it was the bobolink, although the oriole was a close competitor for his praises. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. Flutter, flutter, on bustling-wings, All the plump little feathered things: Thrush and bobolink, finch and jay, Follow the sun on his holiday. The Nursery, No. 169, January, 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers It seemed a long way off at first, but gradually came nearer and nearer, tuneful and clear as the song of a bobolink. The Black Pearl No matter what the species of bird—whether crow, bobolink, thrush or sparrow, the song or call is so exactly imitated as to deceive the most experienced naturalist, and even various birds themselves. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making "But there is no comparison between the usual tomboy whistle of girls, and those bobolink, canary-bird notes that come from your lips," said an enthusiastic member. Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces In one of his letters he says: "I think the bobolink the best singer in the world, even undervaluing the lark and the nightingale in the comparison." The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. The birds in Burmah, though of gay plumage, have little melody in their song; splendid as they are, we would scarce exchange for them our cheerful robin and merry bobolink. Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons One by one they discontinue their lays, until at high noon the bobolink and the warbling flycatcher are almost the only vocalists to be heard in the fields. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader The Frenchman has a tongue like a bobolink,—pleasant to hear. Montlivet Link, link, bobolink!' he sang all day long, instead of crying in the way a loon usually does. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories "Shelley and Wordsworth," says Mr. Brownell, "have not more worthily immortalized the skylark than Lowell has the bobolink, its New England congener." The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. By the time Alice Parlin was three years old she could prattle like a bobolink, and thought herself quite as old and wise as either of her sisters. Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple The grass finches, the vireos, the wrens, and the linnets have joined their voices to the chorus, and the bobolinks are loudest in their song. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Mr. Bryant makes fun of the bobolink, and turns into an aimless whistle the solemn oration on domestic matters uttered by that small but energetic American to his mate. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 Link, link, bobolink! cried the crazy loon as he went out the door. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories In certain sections a cat has been known to destroy six nests of orioles, thrushes and bobolinks in a single day. Outdoor Sports and Games "But supposing it wasn't a canary," said Polly hesitatingly; "supposing it might be a redbird, or a wren, or—or——" "Or a bobolink?" Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird He was like an unreasoning bobolink, or hawk, or fawn, or wolf. A Man and a Woman Every June morning when you go out into the field, oriole and bluebird and blackbird and bobolink will fly after you and make the day more delightful to you. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Link, link, bobolink! cried the crazy loon as they went in the door. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories In May the principal birds of our neighbourhood will return—thrushes, vireos, tanagers, grosbeaks, bobolinks, orioles. Outdoor Sports and Games Without exactly knowing why, we took alarm, and larks, bobolinks, and cowbirds sped upward like the wind. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird They trilled and piped and whistled With the thrush and bobolink, Till the kine in listless pause, Switched their tails in mute applause, With lifted heads and dreamy eyes, And bubble-dripping jaws. Afterwhiles Blackbirds, which have now returned from the South, sing in chorus on the adjacent ditch-banks, mingling their harsh notes with the lively songs of myriads of bobolinks, while high overhead whistles the plover. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 The loon who was a very large bird, was crazy, and thought he was a bobolink. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories In one month a million bobolinks were killed near Philadelphia. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him I was very glad to know that we bobolinks were to travel only in the daytime, as that would afford us younger ones a better opportunity to see the country. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird June sang in the whistle of the robin swinging on the elm and the cherry, and the gushing warble of the bobolink tumbling, and darting, and fluttering in the warm meadow. Trumps In the reeds of the meadow the stag lifts his branchy head stately and listens, And the bobolink, perched on the flag, her ear sidelong bends to the chorus. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Link, link, bobolink! he kept on singing from morning till night. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories The happiest bird of our spring, however, and one that rivals the European lark in my estimation, is the boblincoln, or bobolink as he is commonly called. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader A hard-cash customer was about as common as bobolinks in December. The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play The birds sang in the trees beyond—the bobolinks gushed in the meadows below. Trumps Lo my voice recalls the robin, Brings the bobolink and bluebird, And the woods are full of music. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Link, link, bobolink! sang the crazy loon when Toby and his bride entered the house. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories This is the chosen season of revelry of the bobolink. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader The orioles were flaming in the old orchards; the bobolinks were tossing themselves about in the long meadows of timothy, daisies, and patches of clover. Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas One likes to be reminded that there are still bobolinks in the world, for they have deserted many spots which they once favored. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Listen to the bobolinks, telling you 'tis May! The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875 His voice was not anywhere near the right pitch for a bobolink's song, but that made no difference. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories Of all the birds of our groves and meadows, the bobolink was the envy of my boyhood. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader The brooks began to gossip; the birds poured out their hearts in song, and the dumb trees expressed their joy in leaves "The bobolink, on the mullein-stalk, Would rattle away like a sweet girl's talk." Little Prudy's Sister Susy The bul-bul is as much of a favorite in the Herat Valley as is robin red-breast in rural England, or the bobolink in America. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Listen to the bobolinks, telling you 'tis May! The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875 We skip lightheartedly round the house to see if those bobolink bulbs we planted are showing any signs yet, and discover the whisk brush that fell out of the window last November. Mince Pie Bobolink, bobolink, Spink, spank, spink, Look what a nice new coat is mine; Sure, there was never a bird so fine. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader O bluebirds and bobolinks! what would be May Without your glad presence,—the songs that you sing us, And all the sweet nothings we fancy you say? Voices for the Speechless The bobolinks at noonday sing More softly than the softest flute, And lightlier than the lightest lute Their fairy tambours ring. Lyrics of Earth Hear the merry children, shouting as they play, "Listen to the bobolinks, telling us 'tis May!" The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875 From its highest tier of a summer morning the notes of the bobolink came rushing off his lyre, and farther down the golden robin sounded his piccolo. Darrel of the Blessed Isles Such is the story of the bobolink; once spiritual, musical, admired, the joy of the meadows, and the favorite bird of spring; finally, a gross little sensualist, who expiates his sensuality in the larder. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader When they chatter together,—the robins and sparrows, Bluebirds and bobolinks,—all the day long; What do they talk of? Voices for the Speechless And our bobolink would be as easily acclimatised in Europe. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's These bobolinks timed their southward migration so as to descend upon the fields in myriads when the grain was "in the milk." American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Christopher Pearse Cranch calls the bobolink: Still merriest of the merry birds, and Pied harlequins of June. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook How surprised the school-children looked, to be sure, when the Doctor of Divinity from the city tried to sentimentalize, in addressing them, about "the bobolink in the woods"! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 I haven't heard a bobolink for—I'm not going to bother to think how long. Polly and the Princess The bobolinks build in considerable numbers in a meadow within a quarter of a mile of us. My Garden Acquaintance This fusillade checked but could not wholly prevent the bobolink ravages. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime The bobolinks danced and chattered on stumps and fences, in an agony of suspense, when their nests were approached, and cried pitifully if they were destroyed. At the Foot of the Rainbow "I could change YOU into a fly, or a crocodile, or a bobolink, if I wanted to; but fairies can't change themselves into anything else." The Enchanted Island of Yew A flouting bobolink flew from stake to stake in front of her, and bubbled out in melody. Tiverton Tales We have no bird whose song will match the nightingale's in compass, none whose note is so rich as that of the European blackbird; but for mere rapture I have never heard the bobolink's rival. My Garden Acquaintance The robins sang remorselessly in the apple-tree, and were answered by bobolink, oriole, and a whole tribe of ignorant little bits of feathered happiness that danced among the leaves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Off to my right, in a piece of rank grass, where branches of dock had sprung up, bobolinks were swinging the pale, green sprays, filling the air with melody. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Bending above this, she relieved the wait by merry, lilting tunes like the music of a bobolink, while Kitty fidgetted in and out, the puckers in her forehead every minute growing deeper. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Once in a while the species was plainly distinguishable; I could make out the bobolink, tanager, Wilson's thrush, white-crown'd sparrow, and occasionally from high in the air came the notes of the plover. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Names of objects like "bobolink" and "raven" may affect us emotionally by the quality of their tone. A Study of Poetry Gabriel has a beautiful voice cut low in the neck, and sings like a joyous bobolink in the dew-saturated mead. Remarks The exuberance of the last-named, so unlike anything else in Bryant's book of verse, may be explained on the assumption that not even a Puritan could pull a long face in presence of a bobolink. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived I have heard a bobolink and a hermit thrush with similar defects of voice. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton How sweetly sang the bobolink, When thou, my love, wast nigh! Dreams and Days: Poems I was running it when the bobolinks came to Dearborn and they always come on April 2nd. My Life and Work How sweetly sang the bobolink, When thou, my Love, wast nigh! Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems As for me, I sat here and there, on hillocks and stones, among ferns, and white cornels, and honey-bees, and bobolinks. Saxe Holm's Stories The term has been applied very loosely in this country to both the meadow- lark and the bobolink, yet it is pretty generally understood now that we have no genuine skylark east of the Mississippi. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton She was as ignorant of the pang which went like an arrow through his heart at the sight of her as the bobolink which whirrs and chitters and tweedles over a grave. Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England The bobolink, which is one of the first to become silent, continues vocal until the second week in July. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 If the thrushes and bobolinks could sing human music, and put human feeling into it, her voice would beat 'em all. A Romance of the Republic There was a little pause, and then a strain of perfect jubilation came leaping along the wire, like the flying song of the bobolink over tracts of blowing clover and apple-blossoms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 You will find in his poems the wood pewee, the bluebird, the oriole, the robin, the grouse, the kingfisher, the chipmunk, the mink, the bobolink, the wood thrush, all in their proper places. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Diana was in one of those paroxysms of young girl frolic which are the effervescence of young, healthy blood, as natural as the gyrations of a bobolink on a clover head. Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England Hence those birds that raise but one brood of young during the season, like the bobolink, are the first to become silent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 A voice, joyous as a bobolink's, sounded apparently from the garden. A Romance of the Republic The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study A catbird will sometimes show a special genius for mimicry, and I have known one to suggest very plainly some notes of the bobolink. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton And it always stands the test—the test of being read out in the daisy-flecked meadows with rollicking bobolinks overhead. Our Friend John Burroughs I do not know a single brightly-plumed bird that nestles upon the ground, unless the bobolink may be considered an exception. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 I hear the note of a bobolink concealed in the top of an apple tree behind me…. History of American Literature The bobolinks rallied them up from the dell, The orioles whistled them out of the wood; And all of their saying was, "Earth, it is well!" Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study The bobolink is also a precipitate and impetuous wooer. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton With the bobolinks and the swallows, with singing groves, and musical winds, with June,—ah, yes! with tender, succulent, gorgeous June,—all things are blessed. Our Friend John Burroughs Indeed, they were degenerating into shameless gourmands, and losing the grace of song, as were also the bobolinks in the meadows. Nature's Serial Story The bobolink follows you and circles above and in advance of you, and is ready to give you a triumphal exit from the field, if you will only depart. Locusts and Wild Honey Johnny, and the lady will sing to you like a bobolink,' called Jimmy, as proud as Barnum showing off Jumbo. A Garland for Girls In his poem on the bobolink he makes the parent birds feed their young with "seeds," whereas, in fact, the young are fed exclusively upon insects and worms. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton The bobolink and the swallow Have left for other clime— They mind the sun when he beckons And go with summer's prime. Our Friend John Burroughs It is said to be very useful in the Southern rice-fields, since, as it sails low, it interrupts the flocks of bobolinks, or rice-birds, in their depredations. Nature's Serial Story His note is rasping and harsh, in point of melody, when compared with the bobolink's. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers I am going to take you out to see my stream and my bobolink to-day. King Midas: a Romance The bobolink is an insectivorous bird in the North, or until its brood has flown, and a granivorous bird in the South. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton The bubbling ecstasy of a bobolink floated above the grasses of a meadow, and near at hand a wren hopped about in the alders and chirped dozy notes. The Landloper In the meadows the bobolink is in all his glory; in the high pastures the field sparrow sings his breezy vesper-hymn; and the woods are unfolding to the music of the thrushes. Wake-Robin The bobolink has no mate or parallel in any part of the world. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers And I'm sure that was the same bobolink! King Midas: a Romance If we could all read the lives of our gentians and bobolinks as he did, there would be more true poetry in America. Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier Old Hannah was waxing sentimental, and with a heightened bloom upon her cheeks Maude left her to her memories of Crockett and the bobolinks, while she went back to her lover. Cousin Maude In his account of the bobolink he makes a point of the fact that, in returning south in the fall, they do not travel by night as they do when moving north in the spring. Wake-Robin I never could make out what the bobolink says in New Jersey, but in certain districts in this State his enunciation is quite distinct. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers They don't have any bobolinks in Germany, and so that one was the first I have heard in three years. King Midas: a Romance Only the chink of the bobolinks bound for the plains of the Orinoco or the chonk, chonking of ground squirrels broke the silence. See America First Yet he watched men as keenly as he did "laylocks" and bobolinks, and no shrewder American essay has been written than his "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners." The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters I make out the snowbird, the bobolink, the warblers, and on two nights during the early part of May I heard very clearly the call of the sandpipers. Wake-Robin We know April will bring the robins and May the bobolinks, but we do not know that either they or any other month will bring the passenger pigeon. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers At present a shower had just passed and the bobolink may have thought that another dawn had come; or perhaps he saw the maiden. King Midas: a Romance When I was a boy neither the black-throated green warbler nor the purple finch nested around us, nor were bobolinks found in our fields. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography I judge that the bobolink escapes the dangers to which I have adverted as few or no other birds do. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers Instead of the bobolink, one encounters here, in the June meadows, the black-throated bunting, a bird very closely related to the sparrows and a very persistent if not a very musical songster. Wake-Robin By the time the bobolink reaches the Potomac, in September, he has degenerated into a game-bird that is slaughtered by tens of thousands in the marshes. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers She did not see him, for her eyes were lifted to a little bobolink that had come flying down the wind. King Midas: a Romance The black-throated green warbler is now one of our commonest summer warblers; there are plenty of purple finches; and, best of all, the bobolinks are far from infrequent. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Her head throbbed dangerously. what matter to her that the king bird pitched jovially from the maples to catch a wandering bluebottle fly, that the robin was feeding its young, that the bobolink was singing? Main-Travelled Roads You are walking forth in the soft morning air, when suddenly there comes a burst of bobolink melody form some mysterious source. Wake-Robin At the approach of the breeding season the bobolink undergoes a complete change; his form changes, his color changes, his flight changes. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers The bobolink came an' the wife o' the same An' the lark an' the fiddle de dee. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country The bobolinks rallied them up from the dell, The orioles whistled them out of the wood; And all of their saying was, "Earth, it is well!" The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 "But the road sometimes passes a rich meadow, where the songs o/ larks and bobolinks and blackbirds are tangled." Main-Travelled Roads And the bobolinks are hovering over the low spots. The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment I have noticed that the bobolink does not sing the same in different localities. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers The morning air was sweet with the odour of new hay and the music of the bobolink. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country After a year, and at the beginning of the normal breeding season, "individual tanagers and bobolinks were gradually brought under normal conditions and activities," and in every case moulted from nuptial plumage to nuptial plumage. Darwin and Modern Science Perhaps none of our birds have so fitted into song and story as the bobolink. Bird Neighbors Subdued, yet clear, with each note as true and liquid as a bobolink's, his whistle tinkled about the dim, cold mountains of brick like drops of rain falling into a hidden pool. Roads of Destiny It is said that the mockingbird is dumb in the presence of the bobolink. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers Fear not, pretty bobolink, Sing your joyous song, Never will I trouble you, Sing, the whole day long. Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories The bobolink has an unusually full throat, which may help account for his great power of song. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers But it has been reserved for a practical ornithologist, Mr. Wilson Flagg, to write by far the best poem on the bobolink that I have yet seen. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers "Don't you know," says bobolink, As he shakes his head, That my nest is hidden in This soft grassy bed? Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories The lark is a more marvelous songster than the bobolink only on account of his soaring flight and the sustained copiousness of his song. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers Pretty little bobolink In your satin coat, Trimmed with white across the neck Black about the throat, Why so angry do you seem? Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories
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