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Title: The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dawson, William Leon, 1873- Jones, Lynds, b. 1865
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Columbus, The Wheaton publishing co.

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ecomes much more sedate. One observedclosely at McConnelsville in May, 1903, moved about with great deliberation,stopping for several minutes at a time upon a given twig, where he sang atfrequent intervals. The song consisted of distinctly syllabized .a notes, wind-ing up with a squeak of an entirely different character, Zii .ch .::(( ::ii ::uce tsip.The whole was of a hair-like fineness, and had no great carrying power. During the same season in the wooded hills about Sugar Grove I sawparents leading about full-grown young on the loth of June. In the overflow THE WESTERN PARULA WARBLER. 133 of the Crystal Spring, so well known to Columbus picnickers, we saw a Parulataking a noonday bath. The bird permitted a close approach during his icyablutions. After this, upon a couch of tangled vines, he took a sun-bath inleisurely fashion, preening, and shaking himself now and then until lie lookedlike a little blue and yellow pincushion. Then he whisked into a tree-toj) andwas lost in a trice.
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VUiW LOOKIXG WF.ST .\CROSS THE HOCKING RIVER. P.\RUI.AS NEST IN THESE WOODED HILLS. In nesting, the Parula makes artful use of bunches of moss, or evendrift material left by a receding freshet. The moss is caught uj) and woveninto a pendulous subspherical mass, or if bulky enough already, the bird maysimply pull and pry and excavate a convenient hollow. Again the nest maybe entirely constructed of materials laboriously gathered. A writer in Penn-syh-ania, Mrs. T. D. Dersbimer, reports two srch nests in hemlock trees. 134 THE CAPE MAY WARBLER. No. 60. / CAPE MAY WARBLER. A. O. U. No. 650. Dendroica tigrina (Gmel.). Description.—Adult nude: Crown in high plumage black, iisuall) olive-skirted ; back olive-green streaked obscurely with black; rump yellow; wings andtail dusky with olive-green edging; a large white patch with olive skirtings onwing, formed by lesser and middle coverts; two or three outer pairs of tail-feathersbroadly blotched on the inner web; ear-coverts and space below

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