THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 27 



THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 



Note. — In the classification of birds an attempt has 

 been made to give them under their conmion names, by 

 which they are best known in New Jersey, exceptions be- 

 ing made in cases where the birds belong to some species 

 represented by a number of others. 



Jiuk^ Mjittle^ IPorekie^ or Sea IPote, — Length, eight 

 to nine inches; extent, fourteen inches; bill, half an inch; 

 head, white and black; back, black; breast, upper brown, 

 lower white; belly, white; sides, white; tail, black and 

 white; upper wing, sooty black; undei' wing, black and 

 white; legs, black; feet, black. It lays one or two eggs, 

 of a bluish white color, one and four-fifths by one and 

 one-fourth inches in size, on ledges and in crevices of 

 rocks. It is a regular winter visitant to the New Jersey 

 coast, coming down from the North Atlantic and Atlantic 

 and Arctic oceans. It feeds on crabs and small fish. 



mMuk.^ Rfizor-hiUefl or Tinker. — I^ength, sixteen and 

 a half inches; bill, one and a (luarter inches, head, black; 

 back, black; breast, white; belly, white; sides, black; 

 tail, black; wings, black; legs, black; feet, black. In 

 winter the front of the neck and the sides are white. It 

 lays one or two eggs, pale blue, spotted with brown, 

 three by two inches in size, in crevices and fissures in 

 rocks. It is a regular winter visitant to the New Jersey 

 coast, breeding in Maine and nortliward. Its cry re- 

 sembles a grunt or groan. It feeds on crabs and small fish. 



Batffpafe. See Widgeon. 



Bee Jflartin. See Kingbird. 



