. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . urther, the Siskins, the Crossbills, the Purple Flinches and theRedpolls have each a mellow rattle, which lends itself with equal facility to thatgeneric conception of the ice-berg children. The dialect may differ, but in allof them the accent isHyperborean. I well remembermy first meetingwith that prince ofs t o r m waifs, theSnowflake. It wasin eastern \Vashing-ton, where the cli-mate is not less hos-pitable than that ofmuch lower latitudesfarther east. A dis-tant-faring, f e a
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . urther, the Siskins, the Crossbills, the Purple Flinches and theRedpolls have each a mellow rattle, which lends itself with equal facility to thatgeneric conception of the ice-berg children. The dialect may differ, but in allof them the accent isHyperborean. I well remembermy first meetingwith that prince ofs t o r m waifs, theSnowflake. It wasin eastern \Vashing-ton, where the cli-mate is not less hos-pitable than that ofmuch lower latitudesfarther east. A dis-tant-faring, f e a t h-ered stranger had tempted me far in sno\\ke park. afield, when, all at once, a fluttering snowdrift, contrary to natures wont, rosefrom earth toward heaven. I held my breath while I listened to the mild Babelof tiit-iit-ut-tezvs with which the Snow Buntings greeted me. The birdswere loath to leave the place, and hovered indecisively while the bird-mandrank them in. As they moved slowly off each bird seemed alternately to falland struggle upward through an arc of five or six feet, independently of his. 52 THE LAPLAND LONGSPUR. fellows, so that the flock as a whole produced quite the effect of a troubledsnowstorm. Snowflakes occur singly or associated in flocks of from a dozen toseveral hundred individuals. Their thrilling, vibrant call note, ten. orte-ew, may be heard during the falling of the real flakes, when the passingbird is invisible. Careful scrutiny of loosely flocking Horned Larks mayoccasionally discover a stray Snowflake, as also a few Lapland Longspurs. Probably no winter passes in which a few of the birds do not reach ournorthern borders. But they rarely extend below the middle of the state, andonly during the most severe winters are they found anywhere in large with us they move from field to field in open places, seeking out theweed-seed which forms their almost exclusive diet. A few individuals maylinger long enough in the spring to displa
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