. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. 156 THE BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. the rising sun the brightest is Prometheus, the torch-bearer. Like a beacon light his glowing breast sends a quick answering flash to the first greeting of the eastern majesty, and drunk with joy, the tiny spark moves off to set the woods on fire. When his back is turned you lose him in the upper green, but once around and flash! flash! come swift messages of beauty from this divinely fashioned heliograph. It is enough! You know him now
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. 156 THE BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. the rising sun the brightest is Prometheus, the torch-bearer. Like a beacon light his glowing breast sends a quick answering flash to the first greeting of the eastern majesty, and drunk with joy, the tiny spark moves off to set the woods on fire. When his back is turned you lose him in the upper green, but once around and flash! flash! come swift messages of beauty from this divinely fashioned heliograph. It is enough! You know him now. For the rest the Blackburnian Warbler hops about, and Hits, and snatches hugs like other birds. Like. III. 'HI. -(II I'll WOODS-U AKIIU-k man) others he too, alas! passes far north to breed, quenching his flame for the season in the bosom of some gloomy hemlock. During the spring mi- grations the brightest males are among the middle early comers, but the paler females, and the youths witli breasts unlired, abound from the middle to the twentieth of Maw and linger in rare instances until the end of that month. The fall movement begins about the twentieth of August and lasts through September. The summer nesting of this species is unusually suc- cessful, to judge from the augmented numbers which appear during the fall Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, William Leon, 1873-1928; Jones, Lynds, b. 1865. Columbus, Wheaton Pub. Co.
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