. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. 324 THE ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. formed by second and third primaries; first longer than fifth; eye-ring, white, or palest possible yellow below; below white, shaded with olive or olive-gray on sides and across breast, tinged with sulphur-yellow on belly (except the mid- dle), flanks, and lining of wings; bill broad, blackish above, pale beneath; feet dark. Immature: Like adult, but with ochraceous wing-bars and edgings, and brighter green above, with paler tips of feath
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. 324 THE ACADIAN FLYCATCHER. formed by second and third primaries; first longer than fifth; eye-ring, white, or palest possible yellow below; below white, shaded with olive or olive-gray on sides and across breast, tinged with sulphur-yellow on belly (except the mid- dle), flanks, and lining of wings; bill broad, blackish above, pale beneath; feet dark. Immature: Like adult, but with ochraceous wing-bars and edgings, and brighter green above, with paler tips of feathers—thus lightening the general effect. Length, () ; wing, (); tail, (); bill from nostril .37 () ; width at base .30 (). Recognition Marks.—Larger Warbler size; distinctly olive (of some shade) above; throat whitish; yellow-tinged on belly and flanks; clcotip note: an in- habitant of woodland, especially beech. Nest, a frail and shallow saucer of leaf-stems, dried blossoms, or twigs, and rarely, grasses; placed in forklet near tip of declining beech-branch, at a height of from seven to fifteen feet. Eggs, 2 or 3 and sometimes 4, creamy-white, sparinglv spotted about larger end with rusty-brown. Av. size, .Jt, x .54 (). General Range.—Eastern United States, north to southern New York and southern Michigan, west to the Plains, south to Cuba and Costa Rica. Rare or casual in southern New England. Range in Ohio.—Abundant summer resident. One of the most charac- teristic birds of our numerous beech woodlands. "THE groves were God's first temples," and in none of them is worship fitter than in a wood of ancient beeches. The floor of the temple is ribbed with their roots, gnarled and wide - spreading. Plinth and archi- trave are wanting, but the sturdy beech columns need no ex- ^Ai cuse save their own J$k rugged grace and jfl their aureoles of living green, jw Their unfluted B^^eWBi e""*^ iB^^ ^ides are
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