Yet if the European traveler complains that our songsters are not brilliant, let him visit our land when the brown thrasher, the bobolink or mocking bird are singing, and he will hear melodies as full of joy and exuberance as any he may have remembered in his native land.
"See America First"
Orville O. Hiestand
On one occasion, the third morning after my arrival, a bobolink appeared with a new note in his song.
"Ways of Nature"
John Burroughs
While I was watching the bird, a bobolink flew over my head, between me and the lark, and poured out his voluble and copious strain.
"Ways of Nature"
John Burroughs