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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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ail, dull brown, edgedwith buff; below, white, strongly suffused with buff on thebreast and sides; bend of the wing and spot before theeye, bright yellow; legs and feet, flesh color. The youngbird is dusky above, all the feathers bordered with buff;below, white, with dusky spots on the breast and sides. The birds nest on the ground, the nest being built ofgrasses, sometimes lined with hair. The eggs are fromfour to five in number, white, with reddish Inown spots,and three-fourths by one-half inch in size. The birds breed throughout the eastern United Statesand spend the winter in the West Indies and Mexico.They are most numerous in the dry uplands. They ar-rive in New Jersey about the first of May and leave aboutOctober 20. Their song is a very weak and insectlike cliirrup, some-what resembling the grasshoppers; although it may beheard at a distance of over a hundred feet the chancesare that a person not listening for it would pass a singingbird by within ten feet without noticing it.
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FOX SPARROW TREK SIARRoW THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 157 The food of the birds consists of grass seeds and thelarvae of insects. SiHtivow^ Mtensloir^s,—Length, five inches; extent,seven inches; bill, two-fifths of an incli; head, top andsides, olive green; sides of crown, bla^k; back and wings,chestnut brown, the feathers with black streaks and grayedges; below, white, breast and sides tinged with buff andspotted with black; tail, brown and gray; long wingfeathers, dull brown; V)end of wing, yellow. The birds nest on the ground, the nest being built ofgrasses, sometimes lined with hair. The eggs are eitherfour or five in numl)er, of a soiled white, with l)rownspots, and three-fourths by three-fifths of an inch in size. The birds breed in the eastern United States as farnorthward as central New Jersey, but are rather rare inthis state, occurring mainly in cranberry bogs near thecoast. Their song is a fre-trick, ssrrt, ssrrf. Their food consists of seeds of grasses and the laivae ofinsec

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