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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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except crissum, yellow, with a greenish cast; a broadloose necklace of black spots on fore breast, and connecting with black of cheeks;lower tail-coverts white; bill black above, light below; feet light. Adult femaleand immature: Like male, but v/ith black subdued; necklace faintly indicatedby dusky spots; occasionally an olivaceous tinge on back. Male in autumn:Richer yellow below; yellow sometimes tipping spots of necklace. Length 5.00-5.75 (127.-146.1) ; av. of six Columbus males: wing 2.56 (65.) ; tail 2.09 (53.1) ;bill .39 (9.9). Recognition Marks.—Medium Warbler size; bluish ash of upper parts;yellow of under parts; necklace of black spots across breast; rictal-bristles. Nesting.—Not known to breed in Ohio. Nest, of leaves, grass, moss, andbark-strips, lined with fine rootlets, and placed on ground inside of bank, or underprotection of log, root, or bush-clump. Eggs, 4 or 5, white, spotted and dotted withrufous brown, chiefly about larger end. Av. size .67 x .51 (17. x 13.).
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19 AMERICAN REDSTART Sclaphatia riiUci/la Life-size THE AMERICAN REDSTART. 195 General Range.—Eastern North America west to the Plains, and north toNewfoundland, southern Labrador and Lake Winnipeg. South in winter toCentral America and nortliern South America. Breeds from the higher parts ofthe .\Ileghanies and the more elevated portions of southern New York andsouthern New England northward. Range in Ohio.—Common spring and early fall migrant. .\MONG the later migrants may usually be seen each season a few ofthese exquisite fly-catching Warblers. In their breeding haunts, which liefar to the north of us, they range low in the bushes and often descend to theground, but when traveling they seem to find better company in the tree-tops,and appear very much at home there. There is something so chaste in theclear yellow of the throat and chest, spanned tho it is by a dainty necklace ofjet, and something so modest and winsome withal in the bird itself, that someof us go into reverent e

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