VII. 



MIDSUMMER SONGSTERS. 



WORCESTER, July 28th, 1887. 



DEAR MR. EDITOR, With most birds, 

 their singing is confined to the seasons of 

 mating and of nesting. After the young 

 birds have left the nest, the parents gen- 

 erally become silent. Who ever heard the 

 gushing, rollicking song of the bobolink in 

 the month of August, or even after the 

 middle of July? Such an event would be 

 indeed a strange and unaccountable phe- 

 nomenon, for the bobolinks are always 

 very careful to have their young fully 

 fledged and out of the nest before the 

 mower comes to cut the grass in the 

 meadows and threaten the destruction of 

 their dwellings, together with their precious 



