Bobolinks
Appearance
Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) are small New World blackbirds making up the only member of genus Dolichonyx.
Quotes
[edit]Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
[edit]- 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.