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BIRDS, RESIDENT AND MIGRATING. 93 



BIRDS, RESIDENT AND MIGRATING. 



These are nearly the same as those of Pennsylvania and 

 Maryland, in corresponding parallels of latitude. 



OUR CONSTANT RESIDENTS, 



Are the turkey ; turkey buzzard ; hawk, three species ; 

 pheasant; partridge, or quail; blue jay; wood duck, seven 

 species; sparrow; redbird; wood-pecker, five species. Among 

 these are the wood-cock and yellow-hammer. The eagle, 

 large baldheaded; small eagle and grey eagle, raven and 

 crow. King-fisher; sap-sucker; wren; snow-bird; owls, two 

 species; prairie hen or grouse, and turtle dove. 



The blue-bird is seen in the southern parts of the state, 

 every pleasant, warm day in the winter. 



MIGRATING BIRDS. 



The wild goose visits us on the Scioto, early in the autumn, 

 and tarries with us until spring, living on the corn in the fields, 

 and feeding on the green, newly sown wheat. Many of them 

 are domesticated, though they have the air of a wild fowl, and 

 sometimes join the wild ones, unless restrained by cropping 

 their wings. This bird lives all winter about Sandusky bay, 

 and from thence southwardly to Pickaway plains. Several 

 species of duck appear among us in the spring, as they are 

 passing northwardly, on their annual journey to the far-north. 

 The wild pigeon comes in the spring, sometimes in March, 

 or even earlier, on his journey north, and after paying us a 

 visit, of about a month, passes on his journey. In September 

 he returns to see us again, spending six weeks with us, 

 feasting on the pigeon berry, phytolacca decandra, the new 

 acorns, and other nuts, and such food as the country produces 

 for his use. 



Formerly the pigeons tarried here all summer, building 



