THE LAPLAND LONGSPUR 



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and meadows like those at Kadiak. It was warm and 

 cloudy with light rain. We tarried here half a day, 

 taking in coal 

 and water,vis- 

 iting the old 

 Russian town 



of Iliuliuk a 



&&4^ 



LONG MOUNTAIN NEAR UNALASKA. 



couple of miles 

 away at the 



head of another indentation in the harbor, strolling through 

 the wild meadows, or climbing the emerald heights. 



3^^! One new bird, the Lap- 



land longspur, which in 

 color, flight, and song 

 suggested our bobolink, 

 attracted our attention 

 here. As we came ' cross 

 lots' over the flower 

 besprinkled undulating 

 plain from the old town 

 to the new, this bird was 

 in song all about us, hov- 

 ering in the air, pouring 

 out its liquid bubbling song, and dropping down in the grass 

 again in a way very suggestive of the home bird — so much 

 so that it may be fitly called the northland bobolink. 



GREEK CHURCH, UNALASKA. 



TO THE LAPLAND LONGSPUR. 



Oh! thou northland bobolink, 



Looking over summer's brink, 

 Up to winter, worn and dim, 



Peering down from mountain rim, 

 Peering out on Bering Sea, 



To higher lands where he may flee — 

 Something takes me in thy note, 



Quivering wing and bubbling throat, 



