. Song birds and water fowl . a lively and musical chic-a-chic-a-cJiic-a, fly to a remote spot, and resumeactive life on the ground. At other times, asif in a spasm of sudden joy, they would mountto a great height, circle about with the swift-ness and abandon of a bevy of swallows, andthen return, like a boomerang, almost to thevery spot from which they rose. They areeasily detected, as they run about over the hardsnow; but, on the bare ground, their colorblends so perfectly with that of the soil, thatit is extremely difficult to find them, unlesstheir occasional burst of tinkling notes reveal
. Song birds and water fowl . a lively and musical chic-a-chic-a-cJiic-a, fly to a remote spot, and resumeactive life on the ground. At other times, asif in a spasm of sudden joy, they would mountto a great height, circle about with the swift-ness and abandon of a bevy of swallows, andthen return, like a boomerang, almost to thevery spot from which they rose. They areeasily detected, as they run about over the hardsnow; but, on the bare ground, their colorblends so perfectly with that of the soil, thatit is extremely difficult to find them, unlesstheir occasional burst of tinkling notes revealsthem. Some weeks after my first visit, I foundthe flock in the same field as before, which,possibly, has been their base of supplies throughthe winter. The shore lark has a double claim upon ourinterest, by reason of its own attractive person-ality, and as being the only representativeamong us of the famous lark family of Europe,immortalized especially by the ecstatic motionsand gushing song of the field lark — Alauda iG8. SHORE LARK As if in a spasm of sudden joy, they would mount to a great height, crcle aboutwith the swiftness and abandon of a bevy of swallows, and then return, hke aboomerang, almost to the very spot from which they rose (p. 168). At the Waters Edge arvensis—which has secured to the family namean eminence in some respects superior even tothat of our own superb thrushes. The con-tagion of its rapture has been caught by manya famous poet—the fiery Shelley, the reposefulWordsworth, the genial, roguish and fatherlyold Chaucer. With the last, the lark was anevident favorite ; and, although he did not in-dulge in any such lengthy, formal, and elabo-rate apostrophe to the exalted songster as willat once occur to the reader of Wordsworth andShelley, his brief and frequent allusions, inci-dental, affectionate, and spontaneous as theyare, betoken quite as deep and fervent admi-ration. Every lover of this benignant andintensely human poet—a. genial day in anEn
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