. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. 8o Handbook of Nature-Study THE MEADOW-LARK Teacher's Story The first intimation we have in early spring, that the meadow-lark is again with us, comes to us through his soft, sweet, sad note which Van Dyke describes so graphically when he says it, "leaks slowly upward from the ; One wonders how a bird can express happiness in these melan- choly, sweet, slurred notes and yet undoubtedly it is a song expressing joy, the joy of returning home, ||j]|^>. the happiness o
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. 8o Handbook of Nature-Study THE MEADOW-LARK Teacher's Story The first intimation we have in early spring, that the meadow-lark is again with us, comes to us through his soft, sweet, sad note which Van Dyke describes so graphically when he says it, "leaks slowly upward from the ; One wonders how a bird can express happiness in these melan- choly, sweet, slurred notes and yet undoubtedly it is a song expressing joy, the joy of returning home, ||j]|^>. the happiness of love and of nest building. But after one has spent a winter in the Gulf States, and has witnessed the slaughter there of this most valuable bird; and after the northern stomach and heart have turned sick at the sight of breasts once so full of song done brown on the luncheon table, one no longer wonders that the meadow- lark's song of joy is fraught with sadness. There should be national laws to protect the birds that are of value to one part of the United States from being slaughtered in their winter haunts, unless they are there a nuisance and injurious to crops, which is not the case with the meadow-lark. The meadow-lark, as is indicated by its name, is a bird of the meadow. It is often confused with another bird of the meadow which has very different habits, the flicker. The two are approximately of the same size and color and each has a black crescent or locket on the breast and each shows the "white feather" during flight. The latter is the chief dis- tinguishing character; the outer tail feathers of the meadow-lark are white, while the tail feathers of the flicker are not white at all, but it has a single patch of white on the rump. The flight of the two is quite different. The lark lifts itself by several sharp movements and then soars smoothly over the course, while the flicker makes a continuous up and down, wave-like flight. The songs of the two would sur
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