. Les oiseaux de l'Ohio; une description scientifique et populaire complète des 320 espèces d'oiseaux trouvés dans l'État . t, bâton, ou butte de gazon. La moitié des manymore occupent des chaussettes de gazon à une certaine distance du sol; Alors que les theremainder sont placés dans des bronzes, des coins de clôture, des membres en déclin d'arbres, des fourchettes d'arbres, etc. Sur deux occa-sions, j'ai trouvé des nids occupant de petites grottes dans le punk de souches délabrées.d'autres apparaissent dans des boudins de l'herbe de scie, entièrement entouré d'eau. Les queues de chat sont un endroit préféré. Une femelle dans un nid de terre a régulièrement recjuiredenviron trois secondes dans lesquelles ext

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. The birds of Ohio; a complete scientific and popular description of the 320 species of birds found in the state . t, stick, or grass tussock. Half as manymore occupy grass tussocks at somedistance from the ground; while theremainder are placed in briar tan-gles, fence-corners, declining limbs of trees, forks of trees, etc. On two occa-sions I have found nests occupying little caves in the punk of decayed stumps.Others appear in tussocks of saw grass, entirely surrounded by water. Cat-tails are a favorite place. One female in a ground nest regularly recjuiredabout three seconds in which to extricate herself from the tangle of her owningenuity. Another chose a retreat underneath a chance limb which a windhad blown down upon a perfectly smooth woodland lawn. The nest sliownin the illustration on the preceding page was found placed in the center of aspreading fern in a green-house on the Ohio State Uni-ersity grounds, andthe young were successfully raised. In short, there is no ]ilace out of doors, or nearlv so, where a man with his feet planted on the soil ma not expectto find a Song- Sparrows nest.. Token near Licking Reservoir. Flioto by the Aulhor.AN UNUSUAL NESTING SITE. A KEST CONTAINING FOUR EGGS OCCUPIES TI-IE UPPER-MOST NICHE IN THE STUMP. THE LINCOLN SPARROW. No. 40. LINCOLN SPARROW. A. O. U. No. 583. Melospiza lincolnii (Aud.). Synonym.—Lincoi<ns Song Sparrow. Description.—Adults: Above, like preceding species, but crown brighterrufous, and with more decided black markings; back browner and more broadlyand smartly streaked with black; the gray of back sometimes with a bluish andsometimes with an olivaceous tinge; below, throat and belly white, the formernever immaculate, but with small arrow-shaped black marks; sides of head andneck and remaining under parts creamy buff, everywhere marked by elongatedand sharply defined black streaks; bill blackish above, lighter below; feet brown-ish. Length about 5.75 (146.1); av. of six Columbus specimens; wing 2.

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