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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.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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WHERE THE SORA HIU)CB. Photo by.the Author THE SWAMP IS THE ONE SHOWN WITH THE PRECEDING SPECIES BUT THE PICTURE WAS TAJi.2NABOUT A WEEK EARLIER IN THE SEASON. Tho rightly counted shy, the Sora possesses one trait which brings itinto frequent notice—curiosity. Often when I have been lying in a boatwaiting for ducks among the aquatic plants, some little distance off shoreand removed from the usual haunts of the Sora, I have heard sundry kckshalf apprehensive, half quizzical, followed- by the plashing of light feet asa troop of the little Rails worked their way out and surrounded me, underpretense, indeed, of searching for food, but being all too plainly promptedby inquisitiveness. Dr. Howard Jones tells of similar experiences: I haveha:d them come up to me and peck my gum boots, and play with the gunbarrel as a bantam rooster does when teased.
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THE SORA RAIL. 449 A slight platform of rushes or a shallow basket of woven cat-tail leavesand grasses serves for a nest. A site is chosen anywhere in the swamp,but usually in a rather open situation. Sometimes a tussock of grass is used,and the growing blades curl over to conceal this anchored ark of bulrushes.The Sora is a little more prolific than her cousin the Virginia, a dozen eggsbeing commonly found and fourteen and fifteen not infrequently. In thelatter case the eggs are apt to be in two layers. The ochraceous cast of theground color is unmistakable, and the spots are both more numerous andof a duller brown than those of R. virginianns.

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