RICE-BIRD, OR BOBOLINK. 95 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SEXES. The upper 

 parts of the male are rather darker than the Sky 

 Lark, being a brownish black ; the lower parts 

 straw yellow ; the streak round the eye brighter, 

 the feathers on the crown, which it forms into a 

 crest, are longer. The female is more spotted, 

 and the yellow almost white, like the female of 

 the Sky Lark. 



LOCATION. Found throughout Europe. Not 

 numerous. Partially migratory. 



RICE BIRD, OR BOBOLINK. 



THIS is the Rice Bird of the Southern States, 

 the Reed Bird of Pennsylvania, and the Bobolink 

 of the New England States, and is about as well 

 known in New England as the Robin Red-Breast 

 is in Old England. His note is highly musical, 

 and the rapidity with which it is uttered makes 

 it lively and cheering. To me it is charming; T 

 think there is something woodland- wild about it 

 that no other bird's note possesses except the 

 English Sky Lark; and in the spring of the year, 

 when descending from the top of some tall tree to 



