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Bob Evans,
Geologist, etc.
Hopewell Township, Muskingum County

wrote:

 Subject: Daniel Boone's Ohio bird riddle

The old English vernacular "sparrow" just means a small bird so which
little bird would start singing a lot when disturbed?  And be inhabiting
clearings, not woodlands, but cleared areas that would be devoted to maize,
beans, pumpkins, etc.?  Certainly not a Louisiana Waterthrush; I would
instead suggest the Carolina Wren

Scott Moody
Ohio University

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