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Bobolink

Trade Card for Arm & Hammer baking soda; Louis Agassiz Fuertes, artist
Shot by the thousands as 'reed birds' and 'rice birds' on his southward migration, this bird, beloved by the farmers of the northern states, decreased greatly in numbers. Only recently has protection by law been accorded the Bobolink, so valuable to the farmer for his diet of caterpillars, cutworms, and other insects. On his breeding grounds, the hayfields and meadows, he is often seen and heard as he pours forth his bubbling song, which is uttered on the wing. Deep down in the grass he constructs his well-concealed nest. Four to seven ashy-blue or pearl-gray eggs, blotched with brown and purple, are laid. In the United States, he is found in the Eastern and Central States.

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