BOB-O-LINK. 
song and merriment is confined to the 
male ; but h e generally loses his musi- 
cal talent about the end of the first week 
in July, from which time, or somewhat 
earlier, his plumage begins to lose its 
gay colors, and assume the humble hue 
of that of the femalo. About the middle of 
August they enter New York and Penn- 
sylvania, on their way to the south. 
There, along the shores of the large rivers 
lined with floating fields of wild rice, 
they find abundant subsistence, grow 
fat, and their flesh becomes little' inferior 
in flavor to that of the European Oortlan. 
