Bobolinks

Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) are small New World blackbirds making up the only member of genus Dolichonyx.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 75.


 * Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note; Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he,  Pouring boasts from his little throat.
 * William Cullen Bryant, Robert of Lincoln.


 * Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat; White are his shoulders and white his crest.
 * William Cullen Bryant, Robert of Lincoln.


 * One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak, I heard five bobolinks laughing together,  Over some ornithological joke.
 * C. P. Cranch, Bird Language.


 * When Nature had made all her birds, With no more cares to think on, She gave a rippling laugh and out  There flew a Bobolinkon.
 * C. P. Cranch, The Bobolinks.


 * The crack-brained bobolink courts his crazy mate, Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight.
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Spring.


 * Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom  While the bobolinks are singing?"
 * W. D. Howells, The Bobolinks are Singing.