BOBOLINK. REED BIRD. RICE BIRD 



A handsome, gifted, and striking individual, renowned 

 in prose and poetry as a most dashing, happy-go-lucky 

 sort of fellow, a feathered extravaganza, an intoxicated 

 soloist, an artistic comedian. 



Parkhurst. The Birds' Calendar. ^^ 



I cannot look upon him as ever in a very serious humor. 

 He seems to be a lively, jocular little fellow, who is always 

 jesting and bantering; and when half a dozen different 

 individuals are sporting about in the same orchard, I can 

 imagine they might represent the persons dramatized in 



some comic opera In the grand concert of Nature 



it is the boboUnk that performs the recitative, which he 

 delivers with the utmost fluency and rapidity, and we 

 must listen carefully not to lose many of his words. 



Flagg. a Year With the Birds.^^ 



The most exuberantly happy of all our birds, he seems 

 to contain the essence of summer joy and sunshine. '' Bobo- 

 linkum-linkum-deah-deah-deah " he warbles away, the 

 notes fairly tumbling over each other as they pour out 

 of his throat. 



Florence A. Merriam. Birds Through an Opera Glass.^ 



It is as if he touched his harp within a vase of liquid 

 melody and when he lifted it out the notes fell Uke bubbles 

 from the trembling strings. 



Thoreau. Walden.^^ 



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