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The Singing of Birds. E.P.Bicknell, 
Dolichonyx oryzivorus. Bobolink. 
During its half-year visit the Bobolink sings only in May, June 
and part of July. Through the remainder of its stay, it has only 
a single short note. This is of a softly metallic tone, and in 
late summer and early fall is showered down over the country, 
and sometimes over the city, and at night, by flocks of the biids 
passing on their southward way. It is also a charactei istic biid- 
note of the late summer, about wide weedy meadows, where tall 
Compositae and other rankly growing plants uphold a lich 
harvest of seeds. 
The song of the Bobolink is one of the first to drop out of the 
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bird-chorus. I have not often heard it in July, and never later 
than the middle of the month ; though where the bird is more 
common in the breeding season than with me singing doubtless 
continues later. 
Auk, 2, April, 1886. p. /52 . 
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