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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e.—Eastern United States, north to the lower Hudson Valleyand the Great Lakes, casually further north, and west to the Plains. Residentin Bermuda. Range in Ohio.—Abundant resident. Less common but increasing northerly. PROBABLY four persons out of five—at least in the southern half ofthe state—if asked to name their favorite songster, would reply promptly,the Red-bird. For who is there to the manor born, whose heart does notflood with pleasant memories as he listens to our poet, Naylors words ?Along the dust-white river roadThe saucy red-bird chirps and trills;His liquid notes resound and riseUntil they meet the cloudless skiesAnd echo oer the distant hills.Not merely for the splendor of his plumage, but for the gentle boldnessof his comradeship and the daily heartening of his stirring song, the Cardinalis beloved of all who know him. Some years ago the Cardinal had good reason to complain of our fond-ness, but now that wise legislation has forbidden his imprisonment he sino-s
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CARDINAL Cnrdiaalh ,;,nju,,il,^ % Lile-size THE CARDINAL. 97 unfettered at many a door where he was formerly unknown. Always abun-dant in the south the species has of late increased rapidly in the north as well;and the time is not far distant when our Canadian neighbors can no longersay of it, Casual only in southwestern Ontario. Wherever known the birds are resident or nearly so. In winter they maygather in loose companies to enjoy the shelter of some favorite copse or low-land thorn-brake. At such a time it is a rare treat for two or three observersto drive the birds from cover. They will slip along unnoticed in unsus-pected numbers until the last bush is reached; whence they will break fordistant cover in twos and threes not without much remonstrance of sharpchips, and manifest reluctance to draw the gaze of a world in white. ThusI have seen them, a whole college of Cardinals, rudely disturbed in secretsession, but have always sought and found prompt shrift. Both males and females

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