. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . us at least, it realizes thefull value of the adage, Silence is golden. Gentle and unsuspicious itpatters along the Lake Erie beach, following the retreating wave, or elsegleans from the mud-flats of river and pond, where chance finds it at earlymorning. Only when startled from its quest does it utter a soft mellowwhistle. It is not easily frightened, and if it has half a chance it willscamper along the shore ahead of you, or even hide in the grass rather tliantake to wine. THE S
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . us at least, it realizes thefull value of the adage, Silence is golden. Gentle and unsuspicious itpatters along the Lake Erie beach, following the retreating wave, or elsegleans from the mud-flats of river and pond, where chance finds it at earlymorning. Only when startled from its quest does it utter a soft mellowwhistle. It is not easily frightened, and if it has half a chance it willscamper along the shore ahead of you, or even hide in the grass rather tliantake to wine. THE SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. This Plover is found singly or in little companies, more frequently inlate summer or fall, and it mingles freely with other migrating waders. Ishall not soon forget a sight which once met my eyes on one of the LakeErie Islands in early August. A lagoon, filled with water only when the ;,;^ s t r o n g 1 y , presented inviting warm mud, bordered bv the dens-bind-weed and rank grasses. Withgreat labor Mr. Jones and I madeour way, unobserved, to the edge East wind blewstretches ofest cover of. SHORE BIRD INX. THIS LITTLE LIES J LIST BACK MOM THE LAKE ERIE SHORE APICTURE WAS TAKEN, BY EIGHT KINDS OF SHORE BIRDS. THE SCENE ISIN THE TEXT. A SEMIPALMATED PLOVER MAY BE FAINTLY DESCRIED AS 1CENTER. iO WAS TENANTED; AT THE TIME THISNOT, HOWEVER, THE ONE REFERRED TOiE STANDS REFLECTING NEAR THE LEFT of the tangle, and parting the grass blades, looked out upon eight kindsof Limicolas within a stones throw of us. There were Semipalmated Plov-ers, Killdeers, Yellow-legs, with Solitary, Pectoral, Least, and Semipal-mated Sandpipers, and a chance Spotted which held itself aloof fromthe foreigners. There they pattered and scampered, or stalked, accordingto their kind. They dozed, or prodded, or teetered and bowed, or put upa slender, tentative wing to try the motion of the air, as fancv led them,until our brains were fairly awhirl witli the delicious confusinn of tli
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