94 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



their nests, and rearing their young; but the country is too 

 well settled for thera now; so, like the trapper for beaver, and 

 the hunter, they are off into the distant forests, where their 

 food is abundant, and where there is none to disturb them in 

 their lawful pursuits. 



Loons are seen along the Ohio river, but they are seldom 

 killed. The heron and the crane visit us in the spring, and 

 tarry here all summer, and rear their young. The sand- 

 hill crane lives on the Scioto, and tarries there nearly all the 

 year. The robbin-red-breast, black bird, and Baltimore oriole 

 visit us early in the spring, and tarry here through the sum- 

 mer. 



Four species of swallow visit us: the barn swallow, the 

 chimney swallow, the martin and the ground swallow. They 

 spend the summer with us, until their young are reared, when 

 they leave us abruptly. The magpie comes in April or May. 

 We call him bob-of-lincoln. He is not much of a musician, 

 though that is not his fault, as he labors hard to sing as well 

 as he can. 



We have the yellow bird, resembling the canary bird, ex- 

 cept in his color. It is undoubtedly of the same family. We 

 have several species of humming-birds and the goldfinch. 



The whip-poor-will visits us not very early in the spring. 

 The king bird comes as soon as he thinks the bees, hovering 

 about the flowers, are numerous enough to feed himself and 

 his young ones. This Head of a Departmext, lives only on 

 the most industrious classes of insects. 



After a long storm from the southwest, many birds of diffe- 

 rent species are often seen here, of a most beautiful plumage, 

 which disappear again after a week's fair weather. We do 

 not even know their names. The pewee comes early and 

 retires early. Gulls, or stormy petrels are often seen along 

 the Ohio river, before a southwestern storm. A few years 

 since, paroquetts, in large flocks lived in the woods, along the 

 Ohio river, from Miller's bottom downwards, and along the 

 Scioto river, upwards from its mouth, to where Columbus now 

 stands. They are still in the woods along the bottoms below 



