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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scarce visible to the human eye. They flut-ter about at random, hang head downward if need be, dart and start and twistand squirm, until one frequently despairs of catching fair sight of the crownfor the necessary fraction of a second. Of course its a Golden-crown; butthen, we want to see it. And all the time Cutikins is carrying on an amiable conversation with hisneighbor, interrupted and fragmentary to be sure, but he has all day to it—tss-tss-tsip-chip-tseek. If you draw too near, chip can be made to expressvigorous disapproval. Only now and then does one hear snatches of thenorthern song. It has something of the quality and phrasing of the better-known Ruby-crowns, but lacks distinctness, and is perhaps not so loud. OneMay morning a large company of Golden-crowned Kinglets held a concert inthe trees of the Oberlin College campus. The fresh-leaved maples fairly re-sounded to their spirited music for a space of fifteen minutes; then all wassilent. The Kings recollected themselves.
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23 GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET Riiiidits aairnpaLife-size THE RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. 233 No. loi. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. A. O. U. No. 749. Regulus calendula (Linn.). Description.—Adult male: Above olive-green, duller before, brighteningto greenish yellow on edgings of quills and tail-feathers; a partly concealed crestof scarlet (flame-scarlet to scarlet-vermilion) ; two narrow, whitish wing-barsformed by tips of middle and greater coverts; some whitish edging on tertials;a dusky interval separating greenish yellow edges on outer webs of secondaries;a whitish eye-ring and whitish skirtings around base of bill; under parts soiledwhite, heavily tinged with buffy and olivaceous-buff. Adult female and immature :Similar but without crown-patch. Length 4.00-4.50 (loi.6-114.3) ; wing 2.33(59.2) ; tail 1.72 (43.7) ; bill from nostril .25 (6.4). Recognition Marks.—Pygmy size; scarlet crest distinctive. Note wing-bars and whitish eye-ring of female and young. Nesting.—Does not breed in Ohio. Nest

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