CONCORD 
Evening; Walk to Dutton’s and. Pratt 1 s . 
1892. 
July 8 
Meadow Lark 
with 
Young; 
[_Spent the day in or near the house, writing most 
of the time. After tea started for my usual evening walk. 
The western sky was black with ominous-looking clouds and 
there was no color in the sunset but the sky cleared by 8 
and the moon rose a little later and flooded the woods and 
fields with soft light. 
Opposite the Burrills’ a Meadow Lark, anxious 
about her young- one of which I afterwards started from a 
newly mown field and which could fly well — called tchaap . 
or 
tcha- ap- pi- i-i, tchaap-ip- pi,/ tchaap-ip-peer , occasionally 
chattering (t^-t-t^-b-t-t-l-i^), These calls were similar to 
those noted on the 6th but are more carefully and correctly 
rendered here^j 
As I walked along the quiet country road and down 
through the hollow across Derby’s brook,jI heard Meadow Larks, 
Song Sparrows, Grass Finches, Yellow Warblers and Chippy’s 
in full song. I also saw a young Cow-bird but could not get 
a good sight at the foster nurse. 
Grass Finches, Song Sparrows, a Field Sparrow and 
a Robin were singing in or near Sunset Pasture. I did not 
pause there as usual but keeping on past the big oak took 
the old wood path through the "common lot". A Towhee was 
singing steadily among some birches on the right and a Wood 
Thrush in the distance near Rhodora Pool, A silent Blue Jay 
