Twenty Hill Hollow 



creek; and the sparrow hawk and gray eagle ^ 

 come to hunt. The lark, who does nearly all 

 the singing for the Hollow, is not identical 

 in species with the meadowlark of the East, 

 though closely resembling it; richer flowers and 

 skies have inspired him with a better song than 

 was ever known to the Atlantic lark. 



I have noted three distinct lark-songs here. 

 The words of the first, which I committed to 

 memory at one of their special meetings, spelled 

 as sung, are, "Wee-ro spee-ro wee-o weer-ly 

 wee-it." On the 20th of January, 1869, they 

 sang "Queed-lix boodle," repeating it with 

 great regularity, for hours together, to music 

 sweet as the sky that gave it. On the 22d of 

 the same month, they sang "Chee chool chee- 

 dildy choodildy." An inspiration is this song of 

 the blessed lark, and universally absorbable by 

 human souls. It seems to be the only bird-song 

 of these hills that has been created with any 

 direct reference to us. Music is one of the at- 



* Mr. Muir doubtless meant the golden eagle (Jquila 

 chrysaJetos), 



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