A PIONEER 
on account of brighter plumage or sweeter 
song,— no, it was merely, as I believe, a 
question of greater hustling after bugs. 
About this time the other suitors seemed 
to disappear from that meadow, and all the 
Spring it was occupied by this one pair. 
About the middle of May a rude nest 
of grasses, partly 
arched over, was 
made in a small 
depression in the 
ground. When 
we discovered it 
there were five 
eggs, white thickly 
speckled) with 
brown, lying in 
two parallel rows, 
three on one side Meadow lark’s nest and eggs, with 
and two on the sheltering grasses removed 
other. In order to photograph the nest 
we were obliged to disturb the overarch- 
ing grasses a little, and this disclosed it 
all too plainly to its enemy, the crow. 
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