The Birds of Warren County, O. 105 



A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF WARREN COUNTY, OHIO. 



With a Sttppi^kmentakv List oi' Birds of Probable 

 occurrknck. 



Raymond W. Smith. 



(Read by title, January 6, 1891.) 



The County of Warren is situated in the south-western part 

 of Ohio. Its southern border is but twenty miles north of 

 Cincinnati, while its western border is about the same dis- 

 tance from the Indiana State line. For all practical purposes 

 of description, it is a square, twenty miles on the side. Acro.ss 

 its north-western corner flows the Great Miami, which, with 

 its tributaries, the most important of which are Clear Creek 

 and Shaker Creek, drains the north-western and western part 

 of the county. But the main drainag^e valley and the county's 

 great arterj- of bird migration is that of the Little Miami River, 

 which flows directly through it from northeast to southwest, 

 receiving, as comparatively important tributaries, Turtle Creek 

 on the north, Caesar's Creek on the east, and Todd's Fork on 

 the southeast. The two rivers and the numerous creeks have 

 all ctit deep valleys, so that the surface of the country is much 

 diversified. 



When first settled, in the latter part of the last century, the 

 entire county was covered by forests, but these have been 

 cleared away, until at the present time cultivated land exceeds 

 by several times the area of woodland. With the clearing of 

 the land has come the drainage, to a large extent, of a great 

 tract of wet, swampy woodland in the western part of the 

 county, the once extensive "Shaker Swamps" being now re- 

 duced to a comparatively limited area. All this change must 

 have had an effect upon the avian fauna of the county, but 

 there is no record of it to which to refer. 



But another change in the geographical features of the 

 county is of sufficiently recent date to be a matter of both 

 record and memory. Until a few years ago there were two 



