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seen them in all four places the last four seasons. I had seen them 

 in two of the places for two years before that. I have also seen 

 them in several other places, but these I have not counted, because 

 it is possible that the birds seen in those places may have been 

 stragglers from some one of the four localities before mentioned. 



lyast fall, I witnessed what was to me a strange sight. On 

 the afternoon of October 4tli, as my sister and I were walking 

 in the outskirts of Bangor, with bird-glasses in hand, as is our 

 custom, we noticed a tree, which stood by itself in a field at some 

 distance from us, which seemed to be dotted over thickly on all 

 its branches with some large-sized birds. They were not large 

 enough nor black enough for Crows, nor dark enough for Grackles 

 either, and the position and shape did not suggest Robins. We 

 started across fields to investigate. As we came within hearing 

 distance our ears were greeted with a perfect babel of sound. 

 It seemed an incessant chatter, as if all were talking at once, and 

 each trying to talk down the others. "Surely," we said, "what- 

 ever they are, they are holding a German Kaffee-Klatsdi^ Can 

 it be that there is a suggestion of the Meadowlark's note in the 

 medley of sound? I had never heard it before except in distinct 

 and separate calls. As we approached nearer the tree, the birds 

 began to leave in platoons of ten or a dozen at a time. Most of 

 them seemed to alight in the grass and stubble at some distance, 

 although our eyes lost track of many of them. By the time we were 

 near enough to clearly distinguish the markings of the birds with 

 our glasses, not more than a dozen were left on the tree. These we 

 now identified surely, and now we could tell the call plainly also. 

 They were Meadowlarks. There were at least thirty or forty birds 

 on the tree when we first saw it. Had all the Meadowlarks for 

 miles around Bangor congregated here by appointment for a fare- 

 well social ? Do Meadowlarks gather beforehand and migrate in 

 flocks? I ask for information. — Bcrtlia L. Brown, Bangor, Mc. 



Meadowlarks in Manchester, Me.— In response to Mr. 

 A. H. Norton's request, in the December Journal, for notes on the 



