. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . IT IS .\ WARM DAY ,TO PROTECTFROM GENTLE MINISTRATIONS. iND THB FEMALE SONG SPARROW IS BROODING HER YOUNHEM FROM THE BURNING SUN; WHILE THE MALETIME TO TIME BRINGS FOOD FOR MOTHERAND CHILDREN. 86 THE SUNG SPARROW. full grovviij altho the parent birds, especially the lather, may exercise someslight supervision over them, even wliile busy with a second .XtST l.\ At this rate we should be overrun with Song Sparrows if there werenot so man\- agencies to
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . IT IS .\ WARM DAY ,TO PROTECTFROM GENTLE MINISTRATIONS. iND THB FEMALE SONG SPARROW IS BROODING HER YOUNHEM FROM THE BURNING SUN; WHILE THE MALETIME TO TIME BRINGS FOOD FOR MOTHERAND CHILDREN. 86 THE SUNG SPARROW. full grovviij altho the parent birds, especially the lather, may exercise someslight supervision over them, even wliile busy with a second .XtST l.\ At this rate we should be overrun with Song Sparrows if there werenot so man\- agencies to hold the species in check. A young Song Sparrow THE SONG SPARROW. 87 is the choice morsel of everything thatpreys,—cats, skunks, weasels, red squirrels, hawks, crows, jays, shrikes, blaclsnakes, and garter snakes. How wouldthis motley company fare, were it not foithe annual crop of Song Sparrows? dthe wonder of it is that the brave heartholds out, and sings its song of trust andlove with the wrecks of three nests behmdit, and the harvest not yet past. The nest of this species is usu ilhcareful h constructed of weed-stalksvegetable fibers, and grasses, withdead leaves and trash in endless va-rietv. It is deeply cup-shaped, witha rim neatly turned, lined with tinegrasses, grass-stems or horse-hairProbably more than half are uiimhthe ground, sunk flush with tlie surface or bedded in trash, CdniuKjnlNunder the protecticm of root, stick,or grass tussock. Half as
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