Winter Birds in South-eastern Mass. 
Harry G. White 
3. The Meadow Lark. This bird is common 
as a winter resident in some localities, while 
in others it is entirely wanting. During the 
months of December and January, but three 
birds of this species were seen in Taunton, 
namely, one on December 1st, and a pair on 
January 31st. At Nauslion, they were some- 
what more abuudant, six having been recored 
on January 28tli, and one on the 30th. Single 
| birds were also seen on February 3rd and 5th.- 
In the immediate vicinity of the Fish Commis 
sion at Wood’s IIoll, it was not found during 
the winter, but several were usually to be seen 
about the salt marsh fields near Falmouth and 
also at various points along the shore between 
that town and the head of Buzzards Bay. I 
also saw a pair at Edgartown on one or two 
occassions in January and February. 
The North Truro record is very complete, 
| and probably the Marsh Quail is nowhere more 
I abundant within the limit of the State during 
the three winter months, than on that part of 
Cape Cod which forms the forearm of Massa- 
chusetts, viz., from Monomoy to Provinctown. 
Mr. Small’s record has asliowing of one liun. 
dred-six birds in December, they being present 
in numbers varying from two to twenty-five on 
no less than ten of the thirty-one days of that 
month. In January, they were seen on thir- 
teen days in numbers varying from one to four- 
teen, and aggregating eiglity-one. Meadow 
Larks were present on twenty of the twenty, 
eight days in February, and the sum of the 
numbers recorded amounts to fifty. The larg- 
est number seen on any one day was six and 
the minimum number was one. 
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desert, in which many spend the winter, 
though surrounded on all sides by a practically 
uninhabitable country. 
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