. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. THE WHISTLING SWAN. 571 depths. When one gets "hot" in this ancient game of hide-the-thimble, the most interested pair of birds will single themselves out from the hovering throng and prepare for defense. Unless their advances are earlv discour- aged, the boldness of these two will increase until they actually strike the intruder on the head, to say nothing of frequent salutations with flying shearn. At the same time the characteristic cry, krik, krik,âhoa
. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state. Birds -- Ohio. THE WHISTLING SWAN. 571 depths. When one gets "hot" in this ancient game of hide-the-thimble, the most interested pair of birds will single themselves out from the hovering throng and prepare for defense. Unless their advances are earlv discour- aged, the boldness of these two will increase until they actually strike the intruder on the head, to say nothing of frequent salutations with flying shearn. At the same time the characteristic cry, krik, krik,âhoarser and deeper than that of the Common Tern, and lacking its nasal resonanceâis flatted by anger into Jtra-ack, kra-ack. The nests are usually placed upon floating vegetation, or upon bars of incipient land at the edge of the bayouânever, in my experience or in that of Professor Jones, upon the tops of muskrat houses, either new or old. Thev vary in construction from the almost imperceptible mud hollow, through the water-soaked circlet of retaining trash, to the more pretentious high-and- dry heap, shown in the illustration. The pale olive-brown eggs, heavily spotted and blotched with blackish brown, harmonize so perfectly with their surroundings of decaying and mud-spattered vegetation, as almost to elude the sight even after being once No. 273. WHISTLING SWAN. A. O. U. No. 180. Olor columbianus (Ord.). Description.âAdult: Entire plumage pure white, the head sometimes tinged with rusty; bill and lores black, the latter usually with a distinct yellow spot near eve: feet" and legs black. Immature: Plumage ashy gray, the head and neck tinged with brownish; bill and feet light. Length about | ) ; extent seven feet: wing (S39-8) : tail *o" (2I5-9) : l,iU 4-°'' ' ""â ',) : tarsus (); middle toe and claw I [). Recognition Marks.âEagle size: pure white plumage ; long neck ; small yellow spot on lores distin
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