254 NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND BIRDS 



for steady singing comes next to the robin now. It will 

 come up very sweet from the meadows ere long. 



May 3, 1852. Some of the notes, the trills, of the 

 lark sitting amid the tussocks and stubble are like my 

 seringo-bird.^ May these birds that live so low in the 

 grass be called the cricket birds ? and does their song 

 resemble the cricket's, an earth-song ? 



April 6, 1853. I cannot describe the lark's song. I 

 used these syllables in the morning to remember it by, 

 — heetar-su-e-oo. 



Nov. 1, 1853. Now that the sun is fairly risen, I see 

 and hear a flock of larks in Wheeler's meadow on left 

 of the Corner road, singing exactly as in spring and 

 twittering also, but rather faintly or suppressedly, as if 

 their throats had grown up or their courage were less. 



March 26, 1855. The lark sings, perched on the top 

 of an apple tree, seel-yah seel-yah, and then perhaps seel- 

 yah-see-e^ and several other strains, quite sweet and plain- 

 tive, contrasting with the cheerless season and the bleak 

 meadow. Further off I hear one like ah-tick-seel-yah. 



March 28, 1858. The first lark of the 23d sailed 

 through the meadow with that peculiar prolonged chip- 

 ping or twittering sound, perhaps sharp clucking. 



[^See also under Slate-colored Junco, p. 302.] 



BALTIMORE ORIOLE ; GOLDEN ROBIN ; FIERY HANG- 

 BIRD 



May 8, 1852. Two gold robins ; they chatter like 

 blackbirds ; the fire bursts forth on their backs when 

 they lift their wings. 



1 [See note to Savannali Sparrow, p. 290. ] 



