Sturnella mama . 
Concord, Mass. 
1894. The Meadow Larks at Concord appear to he recovering from 
Oct. 11 the terrible losses which they sustained during the severe 
to 
Hov.21 . winter of 1892-S3. I heard them almost daily through the 
first half of this October in the fields about the Keyes's, in 
the Mill Brook river meadow, or on Great Meadow. Very prob- 
ably they moved from one place to another out there were a^ 
least eight birds in all for I counted that number togetner 
on one occasion and on another saw five in one flock and three 
in another. They sang freely and almost incessantly on warm 
still days giving the usual spring notes but in peculiarly 
soft, subdued and often warbling tones. Frequently three or 
four birds would be singing at once their voices so inter- 
mingling and at the same time supplementing each other as to 
produce a continuous flow of sound, very sweet and musical in 
its general effect. As a rule this singing was produceo. while 
the birds were on the ground but once, rather early in the 
morning, four or five of them were perched in the upper 
branches of a large maple that stood on the bank of the river. 
They seemed to be wholly absorbed in their own music aid al- 
lowed me to paddle directly under the tree aid look at them 
for some time before they took alarm and began to fly. 
I saw or heard Meadow Larks on the Great Meadow usually 
only near sunset or after it. They resort to this meadow to 
roost and do not, I think, feed there. 
