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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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f October.They are very seldom seen here in winter. The alarm note of the bird is wheeu and the song is ofthe bravura style. Thoreau says that while the farmeris planting his corn the Brown Thrasher sings, Drop it,drop it, cover it up, cover it up, cover it up, pull it up,pull it up, pull it up; another lover of birds likens it toLooh up. Look up. Glory to God, Glory to God, Glory toGod, Hallelujah, Amen, videlicet. Government analyses of 121 stomachs show that thecontents consisted of 63 per cent, insect and animal mat-ter and 35 per cent, vegetable matter, the rest being sand.Of the animal matter one-half was composed of beetles;11 per cent, was matter from cultivated crops, of which 8were fruit and the rest grain. The food of the birdchanges with the supply, being seven parts insects andone part vegetable in May. Bttn-hfit. See Night Hawk. Bmtlitt^^ Bay-Hingcd. See Vesper Sparrow. BuHtins!^^ Wmligo. See Indigo Bird.Bunt ins ^ Snoiv. See Snowflake. Butcher Birth See Northern Shrike.
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CARDINAL THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 37 Bnttcr-bfiU. See Buffle-headed Duck.Calieobfick. See Turnstone.Caiiari/^ IfUfl. See Goldfinch.Canvasbaek. See Canvasback Duck. tarilhtftl^ Citvilhtal fwrosbeak^ or VirginiaJYightinhale,—Length, eight and a quarter inches; bill,three fifths of an inch; extent, eleven inches; head, con-spicuously crested, of a bright vermillion, tipped withgrayish; the bill red, and black about the base. Thecolor of the bird is a uniform rosy red, the legs beinglight clay and the feet darker to brown. The femaleis brownish gray, lighter beneath and tinted with dullred. The birds of both sexes are excellent providers fortheir young and the male is a devoted husband. The nest is a bulky affair, built in bushes, of twigs,roots and bark, lined with fine grass. The eggs are threeor four in number, one inch by seven-tenths in size,white with spots of red and brown. The birds breed in the eastern United States east ofIowa and are residents all through New Jersey, beingnum

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