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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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2.02 (51.3) ; bill .85 (21.6) ; tarsus .yy (19.6) ; middle toe and claw.80 (20.3). Recognition Marks.—Chewink size; slaty gray, rufous, and white of headand neck in spring plumage; slender, black bill, less than one inch long, ivithscalloped feet distinctive in any plumage. Nesting.—Does not breed in Ohio. Nest, a slight depression in the ground,lined with moss and grass. Eggs, 3 or 4, olive-buff or pale olive-gray, heavilyspeckled, spotted or blotched with dark brown. Av. size, 1.19 x .83 (30.2 x 21.1). General Range.—Northern portions of northern hemisphere, breeding inArctic latitudes; south in winter to the tropics. Range in Ohio.—Rare spring and fall migrant. A half dozen or morerecords. NOTHING can exceed the exquisite grace of this delicate bird as itmoves about, not at the waters edge, like other waders which it so closelyresembles in appearance, but upon the surface of a pool or even on the bosomof the deep. As it swims it nods with every stroke, turns at a thought to
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THE WILSON PHAEAROPE. 541 snatch some floating sea-morsel, or flits away with as Uttle provocation asthat afforded the bursting bubble of foam, its late brother. It is, however, in its domestic and social relations that this dainty crea-ture attracts our wondering interest. Phalarope society has evidently reacheda high stage of evolution, for in it the ladies not only have more ordinary rightsthan they know what to do with, but they even do the courting. How,Mr. E. W. Nelson shall tell us: As the season comes on when the flames of love mount high, the dull-colored male moves about the pool, apparently heedless of the surroundingfair ones. Such stoical indifference appears too much for the feelings ofsome of the fair ones to bear. A female coyly glides close to him and bowsher head in pretty submissiveness, but he turns away, pecks at a bit of food,and moves off. She follows, and he quickens his speed, but in vain; he isher choice, and she proudly arches her neck, and in mazy circles p

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