BOBOLINK. 



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.: 



Alleg 



cres. 





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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