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spring o' the year" from a tree. Like many 

 other species, these birds are partially migratory 

 in the latitude of severe winters, but resident 

 here. 



Meadowlarks build their nests on the ground, 

 and really build it, too, usually arching it over. 

 This structure shelters from three to five eggs, 

 specked with brown. 



Boys with guns used to consider the Meadow- 

 lark a game bird; but the Federal migratory 

 birds laws have put an end to this over most of 

 the country, and boys with kodaks and field- 

 glasses are getting a more real and lasting enjoy- 

 ment out of him today. 



These "fiel'-larks," as they are commonly 

 called in the country, are not really larks at all, 

 but are related to the Orioles and Blackbirds. 

 In winter their flocks may be commonly found 

 over river-bottoms and in marshy places, and 

 when made bold by the hungry season, they ven- 

 ture sometimes to glean in the very barnyard 

 with the chickens. 



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Why Loggerhead I have never learned, but he 

 is well called the Butcher-bird; and handsome as 

 he is not many of us really like him. He is so 

 useful that the Federal migratory bird laws pro- 

 tect him, along with all other perching birds 



