. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . ^ at high tidein immense numbers, but at nightfall they began to retire across the neckto the open sea. On they came by little squads, hundreds of them, movinglike volleys of cannon balls, and clearing the brief stretch of land with awing-rush which tried the tense nerves to the utmost. Bang! Bang! wentthe guns, and the birds which acknowledged the salute (not all were polite)grounded on the beach beyond with a thud like an aerolite,—at least so itseemed to excited senses. This s
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . ^ at high tidein immense numbers, but at nightfall they began to retire across the neckto the open sea. On they came by little squads, hundreds of them, movinglike volleys of cannon balls, and clearing the brief stretch of land with awing-rush which tried the tense nerves to the utmost. Bang! Bang! wentthe guns, and the birds which acknowledged the salute (not all were polite)grounded on the beach beyond with a thud like an aerolite,—at least so itseemed to excited senses. This species has not been much observed in Ohio, but it should be foundsparingly on Lake Erie, and occasionally at the reservoirs, both duriug migra-tions and in winter. To the four records given by Professor Jones I amable to add only one, that of a male taken in the fall of 1881 upon the groundsof the ^^ynous Point Sliooting Club, and preserved in their A GOOD PL.^CE FOR SEA DUCKS. 6i8 THE RUDDY DUCK. No. 306. / RUDDY DUCK. A. O. U. No. 167. Erismatiira jamaicensis (Gmel.). Description.—Adult iiuilc: Top of head and nape black; cheeks and chinwhite; neck all around, chest, sides ot breast, sides, and upper parts, rich chestnut-red; wings, lower back (but not upper coverts J, and tail, blackish; tail, mostlvexposed, widely spread, graduated at sides, composed of eighteen to twenty stififiishfeathers, which, except in the breeding season, have the tips of the shafts moreor less exposed; remaining under parts silvery white (overlying dark brownishgray, which is irregularly and sometimes completely exposed, especially on sides,according to the wear of the plumage), lightly washed, especially on breast, withbright rusty; bill light blue; feet bluish gray with dusky webs; iris brownish female and immature: Above, including top of head, dark grayish brownor dusky, finely mottled, or sometimes indistinctly barred, on scapulars, e
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