THE TRAVELS OF BIRDS 



he may return to places from which in recent 

 years he has vanished. 



Long ago Bobolinks were common in summer 

 about my home. To hear them singing was 

 one of the delights of my boyhood. But it is 

 years since they have nested there. Trapping 

 in the spring and shooting in the fall are doubt- 

 less the reasons for their disappearance. What 

 would I not give to bring them back again! 

 The morsel which makes a mouthful when dead 

 had within its tiny throat, when living, the 

 power to give one weeks of pleasure. 



THE JOURNEY SOUTH 



On the Atlantic coast no Bobolinks nest south 

 of Philadelphia. So when they are seen in 

 Washington during the last week in July we 

 know that they are already embarked on their 

 great voyage to the South. They travel both 

 by day and by night The watchword is chink, 

 a clear, metallic note which, once it is known, 

 cannot be mistaken for that of any other bird. 

 Often we may hear it from birds that are too 

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