. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. Tin-: it* nn sembles a French dancing master in uniform, singing, fiddling, dancing, and calling off at the same ; But when some fine morning about a week later, a shy, plainly attired, brown lady drops from the sky with a soft dink, then it is that the passionate soul of the singer is fairly consumed by the inner fires of melody and desire. He dashes like mad after his lady love and pursues her at breakneck speed through the thickets of weeds and
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. Tin-: it* nn sembles a French dancing master in uniform, singing, fiddling, dancing, and calling off at the same ; But when some fine morning about a week later, a shy, plainly attired, brown lady drops from the sky with a soft dink, then it is that the passionate soul of the singer is fairly consumed by the inner fires of melody and desire. He dashes like mad after his lady love and pursues her at breakneck speed through the thickets of weeds and about fence rows until he loses her in the grass. Then he hovers, or rather dances, in the air, over the spot where she vanished, or else retires to a fence-post, hard by, to make frantic protestations of his devotion. Oh, geezeler, geeseler, gilpity, onkeler, oo, comes from that perfect threat: and somewhere between two blades of grass the lady is watching himâthe sly minxâand chuckling softly to herself. Once I heard a chorus of bachelorsâor was it a musical contest ?âwhere seven birds in the top of a little willow were singing with might and main. The effect of that wild melody of tinkling, palpitating and flute-like notes with its changeful syncopations and melodious discord will not soon be forgotten. It was an all star team of the world's most accomplished mirth makers. All the world loves a lover, and such ardor as '"Robert of Lincoln" displays is not in vain. With a heart completely won the female scrapes a little hollow in the ground amongst the tall grass of a meadow or deserted field. Here upon a slight lining of dried grass, she deposits five or six eggs, clay- colored with umber blotches, wonderfully like the ground. The owner is mis- tress of the art of concealment, and usually escapes detection even from the most inquisitive. In my experience, the female flushes at long distances, but even when she permits a close approach to the nest she herself sk
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