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THE BIRD OF MANY NAMES. 



IN our world we are apt to express an opinion of 

 persons who in different places pass under differ- 

 ent names. To appear in full wedding suit of three 

 striking colors in New England in May and June, 

 then to don a snuffy 

 brown traveling suit ;j 



under the names of 

 Reed and Rice in 

 different localities 

 of the south, and in 

 Cuba to assume a 

 foreign name, while 

 at least two other 

 names are held in 

 good faith by peo- 

 ple somewhere else, 

 would need explana- 

 tion. 



But we know little of the use of names in Bird 

 World. A few birds tell us plainly what they like to 

 be called: Whip-poor-will, Bob White, Chickadee; for 

 the most part we have put our own, often very stupid, 

 names upon them. 



Fig. 2^. — Bobolink. 



