. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . Autho ouiily. Photo by the iTni;R ■■XEEDLK IX .\ HAY-STACK. RAIL IS SITTING ON HER NEST NEAR THE CENTER OF THEWITHIN FOUR FEET OF THE CAMERA BUT THE SCREENREEDS AND HER OWN PROTECTIVE COLORSRENDER HER 446 THE VIRGINIA RAIL: pared not inaptly to the grunting of a hungry pig, while the same author,Mr. Brewster, likens the love song of the male to the syllables cut, cutta,ciitta, cutta. The anxiety of the female is betrayed by a mournful ki-i, orby short phrases of creak
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . Autho ouiily. Photo by the iTni;R ■■XEEDLK IX .\ HAY-STACK. RAIL IS SITTING ON HER NEST NEAR THE CENTER OF THEWITHIN FOUR FEET OF THE CAMERA BUT THE SCREENREEDS AND HER OWN PROTECTIVE COLORSRENDER HER 446 THE VIRGINIA RAIL: pared not inaptly to the grunting of a hungry pig, while the same author,Mr. Brewster, likens the love song of the male to the syllables cut, cutta,ciitta, cutta. The anxiety of the female is betrayed by a mournful ki-i, orby short phrases of creaking notes. If the young are in hiding a low cluckof reassurance will bring them skurrying to find their mother. The nesting is quite similar to that of the next species in all respects,save that the eggs are almost certainly distinguishable by their lighter creamvtones, as well as by the clearer red of their markings, and that they are onthe average fewer in Tnkcn in Lorain Couniy Photo by the Autho \EST AND EGGS OF THE VIRGINIA RAIL. THE SORA RAIL. 447 No. 199. SORA RAIL. • A. O. U. No. 214. Porzana Carolina (Linn.). Synonyms.—Carolina Rail; Sora Rail; Sorlk. Description.—Adult: Above olive-brown varied by black and white inspots and stripes on back and scapulars,—the black broad and central, the whitenarrow and marginal; region about base of bill, chin, throat, and median crown-stripe black; cheeks behind, sides of throat, and breast bluish ash; below olive-brown to dusky, sharply barred with white, whitening on middle of belly; undertail-coverts tawny or tawny-washed; wing-quills fuscous: edge of wing and offirst primary white; bill yellow, darkening on tip of upper mandible. Immature :Without black on head and neck; chin whitish; throat and breast washed withlight brown. Dozvny young: Sooty black, the down interspersed sparingly withlonger glossy black hairs; a tuft of bright orange bristles on throat,—stiflf andinclined for
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