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We have received a set of pocket xool- 

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We have six pieces of tea wood from 

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REED BIRDS. 



AVILLIAM BRINGIIUEST, PHILA, PA. 



Our Reed Bird is your Bob O'Liuk, 

 in the Carolinas, Georgia, etc., in the 

 southern United States it is called the 

 Rice bird and in Jamaica it is the 

 Butter bird. It is migratory, arriving 

 in this section of the country about the 

 latter part of April and the first of May 

 on its way to its northern breeding 

 grounds; then, the plumage of the two 

 sexes is quite different, the males being 

 blacjk, marked with white and cream 

 color, while the females are of a general 

 yellowish brown color. This being the 

 season of love they are in song; on 

 their arrival here, during their return 

 to their winter haunts, both male and 

 female have the same note, "chink" 

 " chink." lu the spring of the year 

 they will be found in the meadows and 

 grass fields, while during the latter part 

 of August and in September, when the 

 corn has ripened and the reeds along 

 the rivers aud creeks are bending with 

 seeds, these places are their resorts, 

 when they literally become butter balls, 

 so loaded with adipose matter that 

 flight seems laborious; leaving here, on 

 they go farther south to revel in the 

 rice fields, and it may well be supposed 

 that on their arrival in Jamaica they 

 have truly earned the name Butter 

 Bird. Here, in a fine oyster region, an 

 excellent and favorite way of serving 

 them for the table is to stuff them 

 with the bivalves and. roast them, and 

 a toothsome morsel they are. I do not 

 know how it is on their northern migra- 

 tion, but on their return south I have 

 frequently heard their "chink" "chink" 

 early in the morning high up in the 



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