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to the place in the pasture where the birds had a nest with four baby 

 birds in it. On reaching the nest we found the young birds were keep- 

 ing house, so we sat down to wait for the return of the parent birds. 

 Very soon they came in sight and I recognized them at once as birds 

 which I had seen here each year for at least five years, but I had always 

 seen them in the fall in the cemetery at Paddock's Village, and quite 

 a number of them together. I described them to some of the bird 

 students and they thought they might be young bobolinks taking on 

 the plumage of the parents. But when I saw them here so early in 

 the spring, on May 6, and nesting, I knew they were not bobolinks. 



Wayne Lurchin, the little boy, first saw them April 23, and a week 

 later, April 30, as he was going up through the pasture, he discovered 

 the bird on the nest and when she flew off he saw four eggs. Miss Griffin 

 and I studied them and decided they must be the prairie horned lark. 

 She visited the nest and saw the birds, and sevei'al of our bird students 

 went over on the hill to see them. On May 14 we went to the nest but 

 the babies had all left home and were running about in the grass. 

 One of the babies was put back on the nest and had its picture taken, 

 and again in the grass, as the little fellow did not wish to remain in 

 his home any longer. 



Would this bird ever sing along in the night? Three different 

 women heard a bird song last summer which attracted their attention, 

 because they had never heard anything like it before. They described 

 the song as beginning with a whistle and ending with a pretty song. 

 I could not think of any of our birds that sing at night except now and 

 then one that might wake up and sing out once and then go back to 

 sleep. One woman said that the bird sang until late in the evening. 



THE MEADOW LARK IN CALEDONIA COUNTY. 



Miss IxEz Addie Howe, St. Johnsbury. 



My first and for many years, my only record of the meadow lark 

 was on a misty, moist morning in the latter part of April, 1896. I was 

 then attending school at Lyndon Institute, and our professor of Natural 

 Sciences, J. B. Ham (a charter member of our club), was conducting 

 a series of bird walks for students. For fourteen years I looked and 

 listenr-d in vain for this bird in Vermont, but saw him only on ocf"" 

 sional trips to Massachusetts. 



