Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bobolink

Bobolink ({not transcribed}) , noun

(Zoology) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.
The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. — W. Irving