THE NESTING PLACE OF THE BOBOLINK 
THE BOBOEINE 
tion of South America northward to 
the fifty-fifth parallel, and embracing all of the United 
States except the extreme western portion. It breeds 
from southern New Jersey northward to Nova Scotia 
and westward to Utah. Many are the names to which 
the bobolink answers: in the Southern States it is called 
the rice-bird, in the Middle States it is the reed-bird, 
while in the Northern States bobolink, May-bird, 
meadow-bird, butter-bird, and skunk-bird. 
From the extreme southern limit of their winter 
home, south of the Amazon, the males, travelling in 
flocks of several hundred, start on their northward 
journey about April first, arriving in Florida toward 
the latter part of the month and some days before 
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