_Sturnella neglecta_
Grayer than the Eastern Meadowlark, with
disconnected tail-bars and yellow spreading to the
sides of the throat.
_Range._ Western United States, rare east of the
Mississippi. SE. Minn., common S.R., Mch. 25-Oct.
15.
With the general appearance and habits of the Eastern Meadowlark, but
differing in its call-notes and song. Instead of the sharp _dzit_ or
_yert_ and metallic twitter of the eastern bird, the western species
calls _chuck_, _chuck_, followed by a rolling _b-r-r-r-_. The eastern
bird plays the fife but the western uses the flute, and its bubbling
grace-notes are easily distinguishable from the _straight_ whistling of
its eastern cousin.