. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . is mate Phoebe with such a convincing accent that I spent a halfhour searching for the flycatcher. Another which sang back of Orton Hallon the O. S. U. cami)us had incorporated the familiar ringing vesper notesof the Wood Thrush into its own song. He gave the borrowed notes inthree keys or qualities, all of which were essentially characteristic nf liieother bird. In nesting the Ivdbin displavs little caution, and its homely nuid-walled THE AMERICAN ROBIN. 223 cup is not withdrawn
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . is mate Phoebe with such a convincing accent that I spent a halfhour searching for the flycatcher. Another which sang back of Orton Hallon the O. S. U. cami)us had incorporated the familiar ringing vesper notesof the Wood Thrush into its own song. He gave the borrowed notes inthree keys or qualities, all of which were essentially characteristic nf liieother bird. In nesting the Ivdbin displavs little caution, and its homely nuid-walled THE AMERICAN ROBIN. 223 cup is not withdrawn from most familiar observation. Building preferablyin the major crotches of orchard or shade trees, the ])n\\ ordinarily selectsa site from five to fifteen feet up, but nests are sometimes found at fifty feet,and again, on the ground. Window sills and beams of porches, barns, and out-buildings are favorite places, and especially if the season is l)ackwar<l. Twoof the most unusual sites came under my observation during the season of1903. One shown in the illustration was placed on the sleeper (if a railroad. ■in County ,\N UNUSUAL NESTING SITE. bridge over which trains passed three times an hour. Another was made fastamong the drooping branches of a weeping willow near their tips, and at apoint where none of them were above a quarter of an inch in diameter. Howthe bird contrived to lodge the foundation, and mould her characteristic mud-cup in such a difficult situation, I cannot comprehend. Nothing could be more common than Robins nests. In walking outfrom Canal Dover, along the tow-path w^hich Garfields footprints havemade sacred, the writer, in ci-mpanx- \\ith Dr. Deander S. Kevser. covmted 224 THE AMERICAN ROBIN. seventeen occupied nests of theRobin in the trees which werewithin reach of the path, and ina distance of a mile and a stretch would deserve tohe called Robin Row if therewere not so many other placeslikewise distinguished. On til is same trip Dr. Key-
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