Sturnella ;i a. .. .a 
Concord, 
1898. 
March 80 
Cambridge 
1898. 
June 18. 
| Concord, 
1898. 
Mass. Song. 
At sunrise (at the Keyes' ) the Meadow Lark gave me a 
. delightful seranade which lasted fifteen or twenty minutes. 
He was very near - apparently on the lawn ae ar the pagoda - 
and I had a rare opportunity to study the various changes and 
mo d\il at ions of his song. These are the renderings that I not- 
ed at the time: t 1 sit . tsao-tsit ; tsao . tsit-tsin : tsao-tsee : 
t sao , tsoe-tsee-e : tzee . tzee-tzin : tzee . ter-tzee : t see . 
tsor-tzee . After he had flown to another and more distant 
field I heard him give the flight song and for the first time 
it reminded me of the song of the Skylark. 
, Mass. 
Mrs Kettell tells me that there is a pair of Meadow Larks 
in the fields between Huron Avenue and Vassal Lane . in- the 
I have not heard of any in this favorite old haunt for the 
past ten or twelve years but they have bred each season for 
the past four or five years on the Tudor place a little be- 
yond the Fresh Pond crossing a locality never frequented by 
them in the days. of ra|c boyhood. 
Mass. 
Song Sparrows and Meadow Larks in full song near the 
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Oct .4. 
house early this morning 
