The Bobolink B27 
ing from four to six, are of a grayish white with numer- 
ous blotches of umber upon them. 
The nest is very difficult to locate—hours upon hours 
have I spent in trying to find one. In approaching 
the nest the male bobolink uses the same tactics as 
does the wild turkey; proceeding leisurely, by a most 
roundabout way and pretending great anxiety over 
some different locality if you approach too near his 
nest and mate. The female is the more wary of the 
two, guarding the approach to the nest with the utmost 
care; she always runs through the grass a long distance 
before taking to her wings, except when you stumble 
upon her by chance as she is sitting upon the nest. 
While I was spending a summer in Princeton, New 
Jersey, studying the birds of that section, a friend of 
mine suggested a new method of finding the bobolink’s 
nest, which was successful as compared with the old 
haphazard way of searching about in the grass wherever 
bobolinks were plentiful. The method was this: Hay- 
ing located a good bobolink meadow, it is necessary 
for two persons to operate together. They begin at 
one side of the field and walk across it abreast about 
seventy feet apart, holding between them a cord 
upon which are fastened sticks two feet in length and 
about eight feet apart. These sticks striking the grass 
frighten the sitting bird from the nest, and she flies 
