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Title: The birds of New Jersey
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Shriner, Charles A. (Charles Anthony), 1853-1945 New Jersey. Board of Fish and Game Commissioners
Subjects: Birds -- New Jersey
Publisher: (Paterson, N.J.) Printed for the Commission
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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oned pump, a series of hiccoughs preceding theboom. In New Jersey it is occasionally called the Dunkadoo f roni the sound it makes. When disturb-ed it rises with a kwa. Although it seems to spend mostof its time during the day in standing still it is not alto-gether a nocturnal feeder. It feeds principally on frogs,lizards and snakes. Bittern^ Z^eftsf.—Length, from twelve to thirteeninches; extent, sixteen inches; bill, one and three-quarterinches; head, black; back, greenish black; breast and belly,white; sides, pale yellow; tail, brown and yellow; upperwing, brown and slate; under wing, yellowish; legs,greenish and yellow; feet, yellow. Its lays from three tosix eggs—usually four—of a pale blue, one and one-fifthby one inch in size. The nest is built of grasses andplant stems among the rushes in the marshes. It breedsintemperate and tropical America, northward to Maine,and is a common summer resident along the New Jerseycoast, going to the Southern States and further south for
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MARYLAND YELLOWTHROAT AND BLVKRIRD. THE BIRDS OF X^W JERSEY. 29 the winter. When disturbed it arises with a kica\ itsnote during the breeding season is a soft coo-coo-coo-coo,somewhat resembling the cooing of a dove. It feeds onsmall fish, lizards, frogs and other aquatic food. Blackhirtl^ froir. See Bronzed Grackle and alsoPurple Grackle. Blnckbhff^ Rttt-trin^ed.—Length of the male, nineinches ; of the female, seven and a quarter ; extent, of themale, fourteen inches; of the female, twelve inches ; bill,nine-tenths of an inch. The general color is a rich blueblack, with the exception of the shoulder of the wings inthe male, which are a bright scarlet, and the legs, whichare brownish black. The female has no scarlet and pre-sents a rather mottled appearance, the belly being-streaked with white and the general plumage beingspeckled with bay, brown and white. The young birdsat first resemble the female, but the males assume theblack and red plumage in September when both youngand oldbirdsofnewjersey00shri

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