Identifier: birdsofohiocompl00daw (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.

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iolet, bordered byblack,but without white ;axillars and lining of wing white ;bill olive-green or green-ish black; feet olivaceous brown or faintly tinged with reddish. Length22.00(558.8) ; adult male wing 10.52 (267.2) ; bill 2.05 (52.1) ; bill from nostril 1.58(40.1) ; tarsus 1.65 (41.9). Adult female wing 10.14 (257.6) ; bill 1.93 (49) ; billfrom nostril 1.52 (38.6) ; tarsus 1.61 (40.9) (Brewster). Recognition Marks.—Size of Mallard or a little smaller. Like female Mal-lard, but much darker,—sooty brown or blackish to appearance; no white bars onwing. Throat not streaked, and feet and legs not definitely red, as distinguishedfrom A. 0. rubripes. Nest, on the ground, among reeds or in grass near water; rather carelesslyconstructed of rushes or dried grass, and lined with feathers and down. Occa-sionally built in trees. Eggs, 8-12, elliptical, pale buff, or greenish buff. .\v. size,2-43 >^i75 (61.7x44.5;. General Range.—Eastern North .\merica, west to the Mississippi Valley,
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THE RED-LEGGED BLACK DUCK. 585 north to Labrador, breeding southward to the northern parts of the United States.—A. O. U. Now beheved to be restricted to the eastern portion of this range. Range in Ohio.—Not yet satisfactorily distinguished from that of the fol-lowing variety. Probably not uncommon during migrations. If Black Ducksformerly bred in the northern parts of this state, as Wheaton supposes, they wereprobably of this form. THIS form and the next taken together (since their relations are notclearly determined) are not nearly so common as the Mallard, which theyclosely resemble in habits. They are perhaps more common upon the largerreservoirs and Lake Erie than elsewhere, altho they do resort to the smallerponds and streams during migrations. The Black Mallard, as it is called by sportsmen, is more frequentlyseen in pairs and in small companies than in large flocks, indicating thatwe are west of the center of abundance for the species. They are scarcelyas wary as their gra

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