"Temperance! take a drink! go to grass, all of you!" The Bobolink.
Length about seven inches.
Male in spring and summer: jet black with ashy-white rump and shoulders; some light edgings on the back, wings, and tail-feathers, and a buff patch on the back of the neck, like a cream-puff baked just right.
Female: brownish and streaky like a big Sparrow, with sharp-pointed tail-feathers; two dark-brown stripes on the crown.

Brown above, with some black and yellowish streaks.

Plain yellowish below.
In autumn and winter both sexes alike.
A Summer Citizen of the northern United States and southern Canada.
Visits all the Southern States in its journeys, but winters south of them.
A member of the guilds of Ground Gleaners and Tree Trappers, and a good Citizen in its nesting haunts.

But on its travels through the South a mischievous bird, who eats sprouting rice in spring and ripening rice grains in fall.
THE ORCHARD ORIOLE (THE BASKET-MAKER) The sun was now well above the trees.

The children laughed and talked happily, now seeing a bird they knew, then some of the flowers that their dear flower lady, Olive, had shown them about the Farm.
"When we know some flowers and birds, shan't we learn about the bugs and things the birds eat, and the bees and butterflies that carry the flower messages, Uncle Roy ?" "Yes, to be sure; and by that time there will be something else for you to wonder about." "Why!" cried Dodo gleefully, "if we stay here till we know all we want it will be so long that Rap will have a beard like you, uncle, and I shall have my hair stuck up with hairpins, and wear the long skirts that tangle people up"-- and at this they all laughed.
[Illustration: Orchard Oriole.1.Male.2.