BOBOLINK. 
Or this: 
J) AONE 
Then, here is still another song taken from a bird which 
sang in a meadow not far from the campus of Dartmouth 
College, Hanover, N. H.: 
Allegro. 
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fies aie ee ee 
Tike Te LL Gel RE CE ES 2 aah 
Mae eT" LE A I SG RN SP a AT OS (SAT 
The poet Bryant expressed a few of the syllables of 
the song with verbal accuracy. His 
‘* Bob-o’-link, Bob-o’-link, 
Spink, spank, spink,” 
gives a good representation of the three-syllabled tones, 
and also a fair imitation of the wiry quality of the tones. 
The Bobolink is a distinctive meadow character. He 
rises from the grass with a great deal more wing-action 
than the shortness of his flight would seem to demand. 
It is evident by the constant flipping of the wings that 
flying is an effort with him, where it is no effort at all 
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