The Birds of Ohio

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Excerpt from The Birds of Ohio: A Complete Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 Species of Birds Found in the StateThe order of treatment is substantially the opposite of the one now followed by the American Ornithologists' Union, and is justifiable princi pally 011 the ground that it follows a certain order of interest and convenience. Beginning, as it does, with the supposedly highest forms of bird - life, it brings to the fore the most familiar birds, and avoids that rude juxtaposition of the lowest form of one group and the highest of the one above it, which is the confessed weakness of the A. O. U. Code.The summaries under the caption General Range are chie¿y those furnished by the Second Edition of the A. O. U. Check-list, modified by such more recent information as has come to hand.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.