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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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old broken-down reeds, old musk-rathouses, and the like. Eggs, 2 or 3, sometimes 4, grayish olive, or pale brownish,heavily spotted and blotched with blackish brown, the markings sometimes con-fluent at larger end. Av. size, 1.35 x .98 (34.3 x 24.9). General Range.—Temperate and tropical America. From Alaska and theFur Countries to Brazil, breeding from the middle United States, west of theAlleghanies northward. Range in Ohio.—Common during migrations throughout the state. Breedsin the river marshes along the south shore of Lake Erie. IN some of the prairie states further west, the Black Tern seems to bea sort of connecting link between the birds of land and water. There it isfound either singly or in little companies, ranging over the prairie with thefreedom of a Sw-allow and at considerable distances from its breeding haunts.In our own state it is more strictly confined to tlie vicinity of the extensivemarshes which line the Lake Erie shore, and where alone it is known to breed
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THE BLACK TERN. 569 at present. During the migrations, the birds may pause upon the OhioRiver, and are ahnost sure to look in upon the larger reservoirs for a few(lays, but are known elsewhere only casually and as birds of passage. The Terns arrive upon their breeding grounds during the first week inMay or even earlier, but they are not usually in haste to begin their nesting,since there is danger not imly of high water and destructive storms, but ofcold snaps as well. Nesting is at its height during the last week in June,but fresh sets are often olitainable well into July. August is spent in leis-urely fashion, either by loiteringabout the more seclud-ed islands of the lake, or

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