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OUR WINTER BIRDS 



feathers which the Meadowlark flashes as it flies 

 will always distinguish it from Bob-white. 



Let us watch our bird as, first flapping, then sail- 

 ing, then flapping again, he alights in a tree nearby, 



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Meadowlark (Upper Figure) and Bob-white 



"The white outer tail-feathers which the Meadowlark flashes as it 



flies will always distinguish it from Bob-white." 



Uttering a sharp note and metallic twitter while nerv- 

 ously flitting his tail and showing its white feathers. 

 Alert and suspicious he seems now to realize that 

 his brown-streaked cloak no longer conceals him 

 and, trusting to his wings instead of to his protective 



