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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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eye-ring bufty. Nesting.—Does not breed in Ohio. Nest, of bark-strips and grasses with aheavy inner mat of leaves, sometimes largely composed of, or covered externallywith, moss, lined with rootlets and fine grasses; placed at moderate heights inbushes or saplings of thickets. Eggs, 3-5, pale greenish olive, with not verydistinct spots and blotches of reddish and yellowish brown. Av. size, .91 x .65(23.1 X 16.5). General Range.—Eastern United States westward to the Upper ColumbiaRiver, and casually to the north Pacific Coast. Southward in winter to Cuba,Central America, and western South America; casual in Bermuda. Breeds inthe mountainous regions of the Eastern States northerly, and generallv northof the United States. Range in Ohio.—.\ common but very unobtrusive migrant. ALTHO not less habitually a bird of the undergrowth and thicketsthan its congeners, when at home in its northern haunts, the Olive-backedThrush has a curious custom during migrations of remaining aloft in the
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OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH Uylucichla Witutnta nwaiiidonii % Life-size THE HERMIT THRUSH. 217 tree-tops and spending the days in company with the Warblers. Some-times in searching the top of an elm tree with my glasses for possible Paru-las and certain Black-throated Greens, I have noted a half dozen of theseThrushes, moving about quietly at that height and evidently finding anabundance of insect food about the new-flung tassels of clustering flowers.Here too are to be heard subdued songs, which, because of their very moder-ation, serve to transport the fortunate hearer into regions of utter rest. When it does resort to the ground, the Olive-backed Thrush can be pro-vokingly elusive; and no one of the servants of this wayside inn, Ohio, mayclaim really to know this fleeting guest. The full-voiced song is often ren-dered in dense thickets and swampy woods, especially in the northern partof the state. It bears a superficial resemblance to that of the Wilson Thrushand has something of the same

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