Identifier: cu31924022528677 (find matches)
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.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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black bill; phabe note. To be distinguished from Contopus virensby its larger size, less prominent wing-bars, and different bill—the last beinglonger, narrower, and darker than in the other bird. Nest, a thick-walled cup or bracket of moss and mud, lined with plant-down,fine grasses and horse-hair; placed upon a beam or projecting corner of out-build-ing, bridge, shale-bank, etc. Bggs, 4-6, white, unmarked, or, rarely, sparsely dot-ted with reddish-brown. Av. size, .80 x .55 (20.3 x 14.). General Range.—Eastern North America west to eastern Colorado andwestern Texas, and from the British Provinces south to eastern Mexico and Cubawintering from the South Atlantic and Gulf States southward. Breeds frornSouth Carolina northward. Range in Ohio.—Common summer resident. THE chilly winds of March may have handed in their resignations, butthey have not yet been accepted by the Weather Bureau when Phoebe venturesnorth. He was feasting on flies in Florida, and would have done well to wait
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THE PHCEBE. 315 another month, but that homesickness for old Ohio which her sons and daugh-ters know so weh, mastered him, and he could not stay away. Arrived in theold haunts, the pussy-willows nod pleasantly at the venturesome bird, butunfamiliar pools frown icily, and he is obliged to court the shelter of someprotecting bank until the purposes of spring are a little stronger grown. Herehe utters from time to time a plaintive tsip of discontent, or shivers miserablyas a fresh blast of Boreas discovers his retreat. Doubtless he recalls on suchoccasions the bitter irony of the old rhyme, which must have originated in asunnier land:

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