. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . 0(). Female, length about () ; wing ( ) ; tail (82.) :bill .76 () ; depth at base .43 (). THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. 19 Recognition Marks.—Chewink to Robin size; bright red epaulets of male;general streakiness of female. Nest, a neatly woven but rather bulky basket of grasses and cat-tail leaves,swung usually from upright stalks of the cat-tail; lining of fine grass of uniformsize. Eggs 4-7, usually 5, light blue, scrawled, blotched or clouded
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . 0(). Female, length about () ; wing ( ) ; tail (82.) :bill .76 () ; depth at base .43 (). THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. 19 Recognition Marks.—Chewink to Robin size; bright red epaulets of male;general streakiness of female. Nest, a neatly woven but rather bulky basket of grasses and cat-tail leaves,swung usually from upright stalks of the cat-tail; lining of fine grass of uniformsize. Eggs 4-7, usually 5, light blue, scrawled, blotched or clouded with darkpurple or black, and chiefly about the larger end. Av. size, x .72 ( ). General Range.—Eastern United States and more southern British Prov-inces, except Florida and Gulf Coast; west to eastern base of Rocky Mountains;north to Nova Scotia, Province of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, etc. (Ridg\vay).i Range in Ohio.—Common summer resident throughout the state wherevercat-tail swamps or their equivalent are to be found. Markedly decreasing innumbers because of the drainage of the IN speaking of Blackbirds three pictures almost invariably present them-selves to the minds eye. One is of a wet day in early March. The untidy land issurfeited with waters, partly from the tardy-melting snows, partly from theiterative dashes of rain which wreak their sullen spite alike on ghostly groveand sodden meadow. But the bird-inan has seen a great company of Blackbirdstrooping overhead, and settling in the first tree-top to northward ; so he hastensafter, mauger shower and slop. The birds are swarming in the upper branches,and giving rise to a perfect babel of noises. Clicks, clacks, whistles, squeaks,and ringing challenges make up the boisterous medley of those most sociableand garrulous of birds. It is a mixed company, for Crackles, Rusties, and 1 The Birds of North and Middle .Xmerica. by Robert Ridgway. Part II, p. 332. THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. Covvbirds mak
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