Bobolinks

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

The crack-brained bobolink courts his crazy mate,
Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight.

Quotes

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.