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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Photoby theAuthor THE TRAILL FLYCATCHER. 331 bird loves brushy swamps and lowland thickets. In a suitable swamp of a fewacres it may abound, so that one writer has stated, rather extravagantly, thatit nests in colonies. On the other hand it may be entirely wanting for miles
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Taken at the Licking Rcscvroir. A HOME IN THE EEDERBERRIES. Pliolo by tlie Author. A FEMALE TRAILL FLYCATCHER IS SEEN SITTING ON HER NEST AT A POINT NEARTHE CENTER OF THE PICTURE. 332 THE LEAST FLYCATCHER. around. Altho nests of this species have been fiequently found of late, com-paratively little systematic work has been done upon its life history. The birdreaches Ohio about the second week in May (Columbus, May 5th, is an earlyrecord, possibly of B- t. alnorum), raises one brood and disappears early inSeptember. Authorities-differ, as usual, in the interpretation of the notes:Whit-te-ar, and later in the season Hoyt-te-ar were what Dr. Wheatonheard. An energetic szvee-chee or swee-chu suits most. An early migrant atColumbus once startled me with a most emphatic enunciation, Zivee-bew andonce again zzve.e-bezv, zweet. This bird was evidently not B- hammondi, buthe had acquired the precise accent of the western species. No. 144.LEAST FLYCATCHER. A. O. U. No. 467. Empidonax minimus Ba

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