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Identifier: birdsofnewjersey00shri (find matches)
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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hin size. The birds breed from the middle of New Jersey north-ward and spend the winter in Mexico and the south.They breed and spend the summer in Northern New Jer-sey; migrants pass through from May 5 to May 25 andagain from September 1 to September 20. Their song is considered one of the finest heard and iscompared by Professor Ridgvvay to taweel-ah-taweel-ah,tivil-ah, twil-ah. Their food consists of insects and berries. Thrush^ Ifooff.—Length, one and one-third inches;bill, three-fifths of an inch, dark brown; tawny biownabove, becoming very bright on the head and shading in-to olive brown on the tail; below, pure white, with roundblack spots extending back to the flanks; ear coverts,streaked black and white. The nest is built on saplings in low trees and bushesand is compactly woven of leaves, roots, sticks and tendrils,lined with mud and this lined with fine roots. The eggsare from three to five in number, greenish blue in color,and one inch by three-fourths of an inch in size.
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Xj^g, u WOOD THRUSH. THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 177 The birds breed in the eastern United States, as farnorth as Massachusetts, and spend the winter in Cubaand southward. They are not very plentiful in New Jer-sey, where they arrive about the first of May and leaveabout the first of October. Mabel Osgood Wright, in Birdcraft, Macmillan &Co., says of the Wood Thrush: He is an exquisite vocal-ist, the tones having a rare quality of rolling vibrance,and, often as he utters his plaintive notes, each one fulland deliberate, the song seems like the music of a fluteand an aeolian harp strung in the trees. Uoli, he beginsand after pausing continues, aeolee, (the last syllable hav-ing the harp quality), noU-iioJi-aeoJee-Iee. First softly,then modulating, reiterating sometimes for an hour to-gether; but compassing in these few syllables the wholerange of pure emotion. The food of these birds consists of insects and berries. Tiltitp. See Spotted Sandpiper.Tinker. See Razor-billed Auk. Titlark^

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