ON TREES AND BIRDS. 



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After leaving the Northern States they are commonly 

 known as reed birds, and becoming very fat are treated 

 as game. 



In the latter part of August the bobolinks begin 

 to arrive on the rice fields, and during the next month 

 make havoc in the ripening crop. It is unfortunate 

 that the rice districts lie exactly in the track of their fall 

 migration, and the abundant supply of food thus offered 

 undoubtedly served to attract them. 



BOBOLINK. 



