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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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omposed of the notes of otherbirds and consequently varies with locality. Its call is arasping feline note, like the mewing of a cat. Its note ofalarm sounds something like zeay, zeay. Government reports of the examination of 213 stom-achs indicate that one-thirds of its food is insects, one-third wild fruits and one-third cultivated fruits. Amonginsects it prefers beetles, ants, caterpillars, crickets andgrasshoppers in the order named. Cat Owl. See Long-eared Owl. Cedarbirff^ Cetlar W^axwing^ or Clierry Bird, —Length, seven inches ; extent, eleven inches ; bill, one-fourth of an inch ; head dark fawn, crested ; back, darkfawn ; breast, light blue ; belly, yellowish; sides and tail,bluish gray ; wing, a deep slate with a little fawn andwhite, tipped with small red appendages like sealing waxon the ends of several of the quills ; legs and feet, black.The red tips are independent of sex and age; some birdshave them, some do not. The nest is from five to twenty feet from the ground in
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CATBIRD. THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 39 fruit or shade trees ; it is a bulky contrivance, made ofroots, twigs, grass, moss and sometimes mud. The eggsare from three to five in number, nine-tenths by three-fifths of an inch in size, of a dingy blue white, thick atone end and tapering suddenly. The birds breed throughout temperate North America,spreading south, wintering from the northern UnitedStates to Central America ; in New Jersey they are scarcein winter and occur in great flocks early in summer. Their call is referred to by Thoreau as a beady note,tivee-tivee-zee. Government analyses of 125 stomachs show that onlyseventeen per cent, of the total food consists of insects,the rest being made up of the pulp, skin and seeds offruits and sometimes seeds and other parts of flowers ;they consume the most insects when fruit is most abun-dant and feed their young to a great extent on insects ; inwinter they subsist to a large extent on cedar berries. Chat^ Wllow-hreaHtetl.—Length, seven an

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