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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scredit or verify. Here is one which has thesanction of recent authority. In the Birds of Indiana, Prof. A. W. Butlerpublishes the following paragraph, as supplied to him by Prof. John Collett:In 1842, Return Richmond, of Lodi (Parke County), Indiana, cut downin the cold weather of winter a sycamore tree some four feet in diameter.In its hollow trunk he found hundreds of Parakeets in a quiescent or semi-torpid condition. The weather was too cold for the birds to fly, or evento make any exertion to escape. Mr. Richmond cut off with his saw a sectionof the hollow trunk some five feet long, cut out a doorway one foot by twoin size, nailed over it a wire screen of his fanning-mill, rolled this cumber-some cage into the house and placed in it a dozen of the birds. They soonbegan to enjoy the feed of fruit, huckleberries and nuts he gave them, andhe had the pleasure of settling absolutely the question of how they slept.At night they never rested on a perch, but suspended themselves by their
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THE AMERICAN BARN OWL. 371 beaks, and with their feet on the side of their cage. This was repeatednight after night of their captivity. There is every reason to suppose that the Carohna I^aroquet was locallycommon throughout the state at the beginning of the nineteenth century.In 1831 Audubon notes their marked decrease in numbers: Where twenty-five years ago they were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen At the present day very few are to be found higher than Cincinnati, noris it until you reach the mouth of the Ohio that Parrakeets are to be metwith in considerable numbers. In 1838 Caleb Atwater writes: A few-years since Parrakeets, in large flocks, lived in the woods along the OhioRiver from Millers bottom downwards, and along the Scioto River, upwardsfrom its mouth to where Columbus now stands. They are still in the bot-toms below Chillicothe, near the river, where there is proper food for themto eat, and birds enough for them to torment with their squalling noise.The last a

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