. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . perhaps more strongly rufous; blackish barring oflower parts more restricted; sides of head ashy gray; bill red, darker above. Im-mahirc birds show blackish more extensively on. lower parts. Length () ; wing () ; tail () ; bill () ; tarsus () ; middle toe and claw (). Recognition Marks.—Robin size (to appearance) ; marsh-prowling long reddish bill and rufous coloration serve to distinguish this bird from
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . perhaps more strongly rufous; blackish barring oflower parts more restricted; sides of head ashy gray; bill red, darker above. Im-mahirc birds show blackish more extensively on. lower parts. Length () ; wing () ; tail () ; bill () ; tarsus () ; middle toe and claw (). Recognition Marks.—Robin size (to appearance) ; marsh-prowling long reddish bill and rufous coloration serve to distinguish this bird fromthe following species. Nest, of sedge and grasses in tussock of swamp. Eggs, 6-12, pale buffy orcreamy white (of noticeably lighter coloration than those of the succeedingspecies) ; spotted and dotted with reddish brown and obscure lilac. Av. size, X .95 ( X ). General Range.—Nortia America from the British Provinces south to Guate-mala and Cuba. Range in Ohio.—Rather common summer resident; more common northerly,rare in extreme southern portion of state. Nowhere so common as the Taken in Lorain County. THE HOME OF THE VIRGINIA RAIL. Plioto bj the Author. THE VIRGINIA RAIL. 445 GIVEN an oasis of water of, say, two acres extent in a pasture desertof barren green; crowd a company of water elms into one end; add a halfacre of bogs crowned with rose bushes; then a little space of clear water;than a jungle of cat-tails at the other end; surround the whole with a thirty-foot border of sedges and coarse grasses cropped close qn the desert side,and you have an ideal home for the Virginia Rail and his kind. Poke aboutcarefully in the edge of the rose-bog and you will soon start him, a-sly reddishbrown bird with a red eye and a longish beak. See him some ten feet awaystanding at the edge of cover, all alert, one foot uplifted and with claws curleddown; or when he plants it gingerly, he alternately perks and lowers his head,as tho divided in his mind betwee
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