130 FRIENDS WORTH KNOWING. 
the adjacent shores of Long Island and New Jersey are 
seen the various sea- ducks, “ coots,’ and geese; the loon, 
and an occasional northern sandpiper, like the splendid 
purple one; the herring, kittiwake, langhing, black-backed, 
and several other gulls; and irregularly certain wandering 
THE WAXWING. 
sea-birds whose lives are not so much affected by climatic 
conditions as are those of the land-birds. 
Deprived of the small reptiles, the young of squirrels 
and other mammals, eggs, and the large night-flying moths 
and beetles which in summer form a good portion of their 
subsistence, the predaceous birds become more fierce in win- 
ter than at any other time, and exercise all their cunning 
