The Birds of Ohio (Volume 6); A Revised Catalogue (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FROM WHENCE BIRDS HAVE COME INTO OHIO. 17 which is now bounded as Ohio came from the south-west. This is made clearer when we know that the species which have come into the state during the last twenty years to become regular summer residents, have come from the southwest or west. Of the thirteen species regarded as accidental within the state seven must have come from the south-west or west, while five may have come from the east or northeast, at least two of which were pretty clearly driven out of their course by severe storms. The species which have come into the state since Dr. Wheaton finished his catalogue, or which were not known to him, at least, are as follows: From the south-west and west: Prairie Horned Lark, Henslow Sparrow, Nelson Sparrow, Bachman Sparrow, Little Blue Heron, and Black Rail. The following species have been found as migrants, and can hardly be classed as invaders in the true sense: Parasitic Jaeger, Barrow Golden-eye, American Eider, and Long-billed Dowitcher. Caspian Tern is probably a wanderer from the south. The following species, known to Dr. Wheaton, have considerably extended their range eastward and north-eastward: Lark Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Dickcissel, White-eyed Vireo, Prothonotary Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Kentucky Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Carolina Wren, Bewick Wren, and Carolina Chickadee. It .has already been hinted that there is strong evidence for the belief that several species which earlier ornithologists reported as breeding in the north-eastern counties have ceased to do so, going farther north to spend the summer now. This north-eastward movement can hardly be due to settlement of the country in later years, but rather seems in direct accord with the movement in the same direction of the...