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MEADOWLARK 



MEADOWLARK. 



Meadowlark: Sturnella magnet. 



Length about n inches. 



Upper parts mixed, brown, black and buffy; outer- tail- 

 feathers white. 



Breast bright yellow, with a large black crescent. 

 Resident (common) all the year. 



The Meadowlark will be seen flying up from a 

 meadow or singing from a fence rail or a dead branch. 

 He is known in flight by his white tail-feathers, and, 

 when perching, if he faces you, by the black crescent 

 on his yellow breast. 



The Lark has a heavenly voice, and we are grateful 

 to him for being so generous with it; all day long it 

 rises from the meadows, and he sings much earlier 

 and later in the year than most birds. In bird or- 

 chestra his voice is the flute, carrying a clear, sus- 



