22h Tmh Wilson Bulletin — No. 69. 



nomenclature is that recently adopted by the A. O. U. and almost 

 the first to appear in this form. 



We have here almost the first intimation of the entire reduction 

 of so many New Jersey species from common breeders to rare 

 stragglers. The Gull-billed, Forster's, Roseate and Least Tern, 

 Black Skimmer, American Egret, Snowy and Little Blue Herons, 

 Avocet. Black-necked Stilt, AVillet, Piping and Wilson's Plover, Oys- 

 tercatcher, and a Pileated Woodpecker, on the coast principally, and 

 the Summer Tanager and Mockingbird in the interior. The im- 

 mense colonies which once excited the wonder of all beholders ai'e 

 now no more, gone without record, almost without comment save a 

 few scattered notes giving the result of oological collecting trips. 

 Plume hunters, summer shooting by reckless visitors, and eggers, 

 have indeed drawn heavily upon the attractions and resources of a 

 state whose shores are the summer play ground of neighboring 

 towns and cities. 



Mr. Stone also announces a great decrease in the number of 

 breeding Laughing Gulls, Common Tern, Black Duck, Wood Duck, 

 Great Blue Heron, Woodcock, and Bartraman Plover, and Osprey. 

 There are men, now living, who could tell us a great deal about 

 the wholesale destruction of New Jersey birds, if they would. 



In the final sum up, Mr. Stone eliminates seventeen species of 

 doubtful occurrence, leaving 41 resident, 96 summer resident, 41 

 winter resident, 75 transient, 61 stragglers — over one-half from the 

 south, and 5 probably extinct, — 339 in all. A bibliography of New 

 Jersey ornithological papers follows and is practically complete. I 

 append four rather unimportant papers which appear to have been 

 overlooked : 



Brownell, AV. C, The Land I Left Behind Me.—OologisVs Ex- 

 change. Vol. I, No. 4, April, 1888, [unpaged[. 



Shick, C. S., Nesting of the Sharp-tailed and Seaside Finches 

 [in Cape May Co., N. ,L] — Hawkeijc Ornithologist and Oologist, 

 Vol. I, No. 7, July, 1888, pp. 102-103. 



B[owersl, L[ionel] F., Sharp-tailed and Seaside Sparrows. Found 

 breeding on Seven-mile [Peck's] Beach, [N. J.] — Nidiologist, Vol. 

 II, No. 2, Oct. 1894, p. 27. . 



Wolf, Ma.1. A. G., Some Nocturnal Migrants, List of Birds Strik- 

 ing Lantern of Abescom Light, Atlantic City, N. J. — Birds of Penn- 

 sylvania, 1890, pp. 4C0-401. F. L. B. 



