DCHP-3

meadow Iark†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of several North American songbirds, Sturnella sp.

Quotations

1792
The Governor went to the Landing, and I went to the Fort to see Capt. Darling's stuffed birds . . . a meadow lark, the size of a blackbird, the colour the richest yellow, shaded to orange intermixed with black. . . .
1957
The burble of meadowlarks did not break but only seemed to enforce the silence of this vacuum, and a cleansing wind carried all the perfumes of Eden.