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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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ly visit the poultry yard. Government examinationof CA stomachs showed that 15 contained poultry or gamebirds, IT other birds, 1 mice, 1 frog, 1 lizard, 2 insects, 11were empty. Government examination of 133 stomachsshowed that 31 contained poultry or game birds, 52 otherbirds, 11 mammals, 1 frog, 3 lizards, 2 insects and 39were empty. MMawk^ IPuck^ or Faleon.—Length, sixteen to twen-ty inches; extent, three feet; above, sooty back; feathersmore or less edged with rusty; back of neck lighter, gen-erally bulf streaked with brown; wings, brownish black,barred on the inner webs with bufi: or cinnamon; tail simi-lar, with a whitish tip; under side of body dull w^hite orbuff, longitudinally streaked with brown; old birds havethe fore breast nearly or quite devoid of streaks. It nests in hollow^ trees and on rocky cliffs. The eggsare two inches by one and three-fourths inches in size,of a dirty white to a light brown, with darker spots ofthe same color, and either three or four in number.
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COOPERS HAWK. THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 79 It breeds in North America southward as far as theMiddle States. In New Jersey it is more frequent in win-ter, rather common along the coast, where it preys onwater birds, but rather scarce in the interior. A fewbreed along the upper Delaware. Government examination of 20 stomachs showed that7 contained poultry or game birds, 1> other birds, 1 mice, 2insects and 4 weie empty. natrh\ Fish, See Osprey. Mitiivk^ Mien. See Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-TailedHawk and Coopers Hawk. Httivk,^ •jflftrsh^ or Harrier.—length, eighteen totwenty inches; male, above light bluish gray, as is alsothe whole head and fore part of the breast; rest of undersurface white, sometimes spotted with rusty; tail, gray,barred with broad black bands, and a little rufous nearthe base; inner webs of wing feathers white at base;female, brown above, mottled with rusty edgings on thehead; under parts, rusty, shaded and striped with brownon throat and breast; tail brown, wit

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