BULLETIN 
OF THE 
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 
Number 250 August, 1912 
SOME OHIO BIRDS 
BY H. A. GOSSARD AND SCOTT G. HARRY 
INTRODUCTION 
In 1896 the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station published 
a technical bulletin “The Birdr of Wayne County” by Mr. H. C. 
Oberholser* In this pamphlet attention was given to all the species 
that had, up to that time, been recorded as having been seen in the 
county. Notes upon food and nesting habits, together with descrip¬ 
tive matter and migration records were also included in the work. 
Subsequent to this publication nothing regarding birds has been 
distributed by the Station, except some compiled notes in Bulletins 
164 and 198, also some migration records collected by the junior 
author and by Mr. A. I. Good for a series of seasons preceding 1908, 
these also being included in Bulletin 198. These few and abbreviated 
papers were sufficient, however, to start a stream of inquiries for 
information, which still continue, and which, for convenience sake, 
both for our constituents and for ourselves, the Station authorities 
have deemed best should be answered in the present paper. When 
the senior author was requested to become responsible for the 
preparation of this work, he was much gratified to be able to enlist 
at the time of its inception the help of the j unior writer who, while em¬ 
ployed for the past several years in the Departments of Horticulture 
and Forestry, has, as a diversion, made a special study of bird habits 
and of bird migration. The heavier part of the work in getting 
ready the manuscript has devolved upon the latter, and the migra¬ 
tion records for a period of eleven years have been collected by him, 
workingindependentlyofany direction save his own initiative. While, 
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