The Birds of Ohio, Vol. 2: A Complete Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 Species of Birds Found in the State (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The birds were very noisy, especially during flight and at meals, scream ing and chattering like nothing else in all the wood. But during the middle of the day they rested silently in the dense forest, or cooed tenderly if it were the mating season. Their favorite food was the cockle-burr (xanthium canadense) which grows abundantly in low places. Besides this they ate wild fruit of many kinds, - persimmons, wild grapes, pawpaws, - as well as beech nuts, acorns, and the round seed-ball of the sycamore. When the settlers came, wheat in the milk was found to be very toothsome. And the bounties of the orchard irresistible. If reports are true these gay Phil istines did not always stop when their bellies were full but sometimes wantonly destroyed the growing crops of our hard-working fathers.

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