The Meadow Lark ( Sturnella magma) in Vermont in Winter. 
This species generally leaves for the south by the middle of October and 
I have never, till now, noted them later than this-. On December 9, 1882, 
I shot a male in this vicinity, the ground at the time being covered with 
three inches of snow. On dissection the crop was found to be filled with 
an unrecognizable mass of insects, probably beetles. — F. H. Knowlton, 
Middlebury, Vt. Bull. N.'O.O, S.JtTjy. 1883, p. ) $2 . 
Auk, XII, July, 1895, p p. 3H-3/Z. 
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and, what is still more surprising, an elegant Meadowlark was given me 
the 6th of January last. It had been about the doors of a neighbor’s 
house hunting for food and resting at night in willow trees that over- 
hung the piazza ; its fearless confidence in humanity meeting the 
usual fate. 
