. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . hanies north of Maryland andDelaware; north irregularly in the Mississippi Valley to southern only along the northern border of its range. Range in Ohio.—Formerly unknown in the state, it has recently made itsappearance, and is on the increase in some parts of southern and central Ohio,—notably in the Valley of the Scioto. THE BEWICK WREN. 263 BARELY known as an Ohio bird at Wheatons time (its nest iiaving beenfound once in Circleville) the Bewick Wren today i
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . hanies north of Maryland andDelaware; north irregularly in the Mississippi Valley to southern only along the northern border of its range. Range in Ohio.—Formerly unknown in the state, it has recently made itsappearance, and is on the increase in some parts of southern and central Ohio,—notably in the Valley of the Scioto. THE BEWICK WREN. 263 BARELY known as an Ohio bird at Wheatons time (its nest iiaving beenfound once in Circleville) the Bewick Wren today is the Wren of SouthernOhio. Since his arrival the House Wren has left the country and has beenentirely replaced by this better songster and thriftier species. When the chill-ing blasts of February, 1899, howled over the Scioto Valley bottoms and creptinto every ravine of the hills, the thermometer standing at 30° below zero,when Goldfinches and Spar-rows dropped out of theexhausted and frozen, thecheerful voice of the Bewick Wren wasloudly ringing fromsome favorite I had toenvy him!While man and. Taken near Waverly. A NEST IN THE WOOD-PItE. Photo byRev. W. beast were seeking shelter from this cold, and the earth was groaning underits burden of snow, he, undaunted, gay and light-hearted, was singing inanticipation of the joyous springtime. And again when trees and flowersbloom, or when midsummers sun is blazing down in unabated fury, his songgreets us at our home. Not a voluble merry chatter, like the House Wrens,but clear, strong and cheery, easily heard for a quarter of a mile,—such isthe song of Bewicks Wren. Easily distinguished from the former he hasthe same teasing days about him,—now peeping into some corner, now ex-amining the woodpile, now crawling into a knot-hole of the smoke-house,creeping forth like a mouse at the next moment, whisking his erectly-carriedtail, watching you carefully vhough fearlessly, he all of a sudden mountssome fen
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