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meadow Iark † 
any of several North American songbirds, Sturnella sp.
- 1792 (1911) 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.
- 1792 (1911) 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. . . .