THE TRAVELS OF THE BOBOLINK 



birds. Few people who use this name know that 

 they are giving it to the same bird they called 

 Ricebird in the fall. 



While in the South the Bobolinks remain in 

 close flocks, like Red-winged Blackbirds. Like 

 the Red-wings they sing in chorus. Multiply 

 the song of one Bobolink one or two hundred 

 times and you may have some idea of the music 

 a whole flock of Bobolinks can make. 



Although the last Bobolink does not leave 

 Florida until late in May, the advance guard 

 reaches Washington the last week in April. 

 May i they are due at New York, and a week 

 later at Boston. 



The Bobolinks of northern New England and 

 New Brunswick have been traveling for two 

 months over a route about four thousand miles 

 long, and they make this great journey twice a 

 year to spend but little more than two months 

 on their nesting grounds. But in this short 

 time they can rear their families. This is 

 what they come for. Why, then, should they 

 stay longer? 



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