p. 11 | HOW A LARK SINGS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 26, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 13.

HOW A LARK SINGS.

REV. J. G. WOOD, in an article on “The Wonders of the Spring,” says that the volume of sound produced by the skylark is most wonderful. “The lark ascends until it looks no larger than a midge, and can with difficulty be seen by the unaided eye, and yet every note will be clearly audible to persons who are fully half a mile from the nest over which the bird utters its song. Moreover, it never ceases to sing for a moment, a feat which seems wonderful to us human beings, who find that a song of six or seven minutes in length, tho interspersed with rests and pauses, is more than trying. Even a practised public speaker, tho he can pause at the end of each sentence, finds the applause of the audience a very welcome relief. Moreover, the singer and speaker need to use no exertion save exercising their voices. Yet the bird will pour out a continuous song of twenty minutes in length, and all the time has to support itself in the air by the constant use of its wings.”—Selected.