DIVISION II. 



NATIVE BIRDS. 



PART I. 



AMERICAN STARLINGS. Sturnellse. 



CHAPTER I. 



AMERICAN STARLING, OR MEADOW-LARK. 

 Sturnella ludoviciana. 



THE first of this order, which we shall 

 touch upon, is the Meadow-lark, a well 

 known resident of old fields and marshy 

 meadows, at all seasons of the year, in 

 every section of the union. We give his 

 description, because we have occasionally 

 met with a specimen in the cage, where 

 he is valuable for his beauty of plumage 



