Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. 15 
323. Blue-headed Quail-dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala). 
Range.—Florida Keys and Cuba. 
Book names.—Blue-headed pigeon; blue-headed turtle. 
Order PASSERES: Perching Birds. ** 
Famity ICTERIDAE: BLacKBIRDS, ORIOLES, AND MEADOWLARKS. 
494. Bobolink (Dolichonyzx oryzivorus **). 
Range.—North and South America. Breeds mainly in the Transition Zone from southeastern British 
Columbia, central Alberta, central Saskatchewan, central Manitoba, central Ontario, central Quebec 
and Cape Breton Island south to northeastern Nevada, Utah, northern Missouri, Hlinois, Indiana, central 
Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; winters in South America to southern Brazil, 
Bolivia, and Paraguay; in migration to the West Indies and east coast of Central America; casual in 
California; accidental in Bermuda and the Galapagos. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Bobolink (originally a New York and New England name, now in 
rather general use, not among gunners, however; sometimes nicked to Bob or Robert). 
In local use —Army-worm bird (Mo.); Bob-lincoln (N.H., N. Y.); étourneau (star- 
ling) (La.); goglu (from the notes) (Que.); Maybird (N. C. to La.); meadow-bird 
(La.); oats-bird (Fla.); ortolan (N.J. to La.); reedbird (sometimes reedy) (N. J., Pa., 
Del., Md., and D. C. in particular, but used more or less southward even to La.); 
ricebird (N. C. to La.); skunk-bird, skunk blackbird, skunk-head blackbird (N. Y. 
and New England, names tracing back to a Cree Indian term); strawberry bird 
(Conn.); sucker, wheat-bird, vellow ricebird (Fla.). 
Geographic index.—Ala., Maybird, ortolan, reedbird, ricebird; Del., ortolan, reed- 
bird; Conn., strawberry bird; D. C., reedbird; Fla., Maybird, oats-bird, ortolan, reed- 
bird, ricebird, sucker, wheat-bird, yellow ricebird; Ga., Maybird, ortolan, reedbird, 
ricebird; Za., étourneau, Maybird, meadow-bird, reedbird, ricebird; Md., ortolan, 
reedbird; Mass., skunk-bird, skunk blackbird, skunk-head blackbird; Miss., May- 
bird, ortolan, reedbird, ricebird; Mo., army-worm bird; N.H., Bob-lincoln; N. J., 
ortolan, reedbird; NV. Y., Bob-lincoln, skunk-bird, skunk blackbird, skunk-head black- 
bird; N. C., Maybird, ortolan, reedbird, ricebird; Pa., reedbird; Que., goglu; S. C., 
Maybird, ortolan, reedbird, ricebird; Va., ortolan, reedbird. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Agripenne (from a once-used specific name meaning wild-wing), butter-bird 
(Jamaica, apparently only a book name in the United States), American ortolan, 
meadow-wink, ortolan de la Caroline (Carolina ortolan; the term ortolan, denoting a 
European species of bunting, a gastronomically famous bird, has been applied to a 
number of other species favored by epicures); ortolan du riz (rice ortolan), rice-bunt- 
ing, rice-troopial, Robert-of-Lincoln (used in poetry), sharp-tailed ricebird, white- 
backed maize-thief, white-winged blackbird. 
44 Because of the severe depredations of bobolinks (reed birds or rice birds) in the rice fields of the South 
Atlantic States—which, despite impressions to the contrary, are still growing an important crop (the rice 
acreage totaling over 14,000 and producing annually 350,000 bushels)—these birds may be shot under au- 
thority of an order of the Secretary of Agriculture in the coastal States from New Jersey south to Florida 
during specified open seasons. (See footnote 2, page 2.) 
