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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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gh in coniferous trees. Eggs, 4, white with creamy or buffy tints, speckledand spotted with lilac-gray and rufous-brown, usually gathered in loose wreathabout larger end. Av. size, .63 x .49 (16. x 12.5). General Range.—Eastern North America to the Plains, north to HudsonBay Territory, breeding from Connecticut and northern Illinois northward, andsouth along the Alleghanies to South Carolina. In winter south to Cuba andPanama. Accidental in Greenland and Europe. Range in Ohio.—Very common spring and fall migrant. A few pairs remainto breed in the rare patches of coniferous timber in the northern portion of thestate. IF we are sometimes disposed to envy the ornithological pioneers, Wil-son, Audubon, and the rest, because of their unique opportunities for observ-ing birds now rare or extinct, we may comfortably reflect upon the factthat that most fascinating and distinctively American family, the Mniotiltidae.is yearly marshalled before our eyes in a way that was denied the fathers.
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BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER THE BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. i6i The chief reason for this is one which we deplore otherwise, viz., the con-tiimed denudation of the forests. It is probably safe to say that in Wilsonsday, that is during the opening decade of the last century, eighty-five percent nf the area of our state was covered with timber. In such a foreste\-en of the great Warbler army, whole regiments might pass year by yearunnoticed, and many species be held rare which were really abundant. Butas early as 1885 the forest acreage was estimated at only seventeen per centof the whole. These are the latest statistics availalile, but the percentage,without doubt, has steadily decreased since then. In this respect, then,we are favored; for if the birds would forage at all, they nuist needs availthemselves of our restricted wi mil-lots and swarm tluough our fenced or-chards. We are unmasking hidden beauties, and cnmpelling reluctant faysto show themselves. The Black-throated Green W

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