bobolink

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

The popular name of the rice-bunting (icterus), a bird which frequents the wild rice and marshes; on Long Island it is called the rice bird. In other places it is called the skunk-blackbird.


It sticks to me like a bobolink on a saplin, in a wood.--Margaret, p. 87.

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