330° . Notes on certain paris of the State of Ohio. 
An account of the Birds, whether migrating or resident—the 
pervods of ther arrival, departure and uses. 
Our birds, with a few exceptions, are the same as those 
which are common to this country and common to the 
eastern states. I shall mention a few of those which are 
constant residents. Amongst these, are the turkey, raven, 
¢row, turkey-buzzard, three kinds of hawk or vulture, 
pheasant, partridge or quail, blue jays, a small kind of 
sparrow, red birds, wren, and two kinds of owls, the large 
and small, orscreech owl, turtle dove—one or two kinds 
of wood ducks, five kinds of woodpeckers, amongst these 
are the wood-cock and yellow hammer, the king fisher, the 
bald headed eagle, and gray eagle. These are all thatI 
recollect at this time. Amongst our migrating birds, we 
enumerate the wild pigeon. They usually appear the begin- 
ning of March, on their journey northward—they pass about 
a month with us, and proceed on their journey. In Septem- 
ber they visit us again, on their return to the south ; they 
then spend about six weeks, feasting on the new acorns, 
beach nuts, and berries of the phytolacca decandra, or poke, 
of which they are so fond that the plant has from this circum- 
stance been called “ pigeon berry,” and is generally known 
by thatname. They seldom pass the summer with us; but 
used to do so sometimes in the first settlement of the country ; 
when they built nests, and hatched and reared their young in 
vast multitudes. 
Several species of ducks visit us spring and autumn; also 
the wild goose occasionally stops awhile with us, in her jour- 
heys north and south. Loons are frequently seen, but sel- 
dom amongst the spoils of the hunter. Their eyes and ears 
are so good that they dive beneath the water, before the shot 
of the fowler can reach them. The heron and crane visit us 
inthe spring, and rear their young in the course of the sum- 
mer. The robbin-red-breast, black-bird, and blue-bird, were 
seen this year the first of March; they sometimes appear in 
in Thane The bob-of-lincoln, or magpie, appears ata 
later period in April or May. ‘The chimney swallow, barn- 
swallow, and martin, make their appearance, as soon as the 
warm weather has produced a supply of insects for their 
support. But last year the weather was so cold about the 
middle of April, that a great number of those birds which live 
upon insects, died with famine, and with cold. A vast 
vaftety of other kinds also suffered, and were so benumbed 
