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day, the majority of them resorting to the cultivated districts of 

 Pennsylvania to feed and returning to the New Jersey pines at 

 night. The following roosts have been occupied within the last few 

 years, and there are doubtless others :* 



Hainesport. Burlington Co., N. J., extent of roosting area 20-30 acres. 

 Jlerchantville. Camden Co., N. J., " " 15-20 " 



Reedy Island, Delaware River, " " 50 " 



Davis Grove, Montgomery Co., Pa., " •' 20 " 



Coatesville, Chester Co., Pa., " " Several " 



217* Corvus ossifragus Wils. Fish Crow. 



Breeding Range — Atlantic and Gulf coasts to Long Island. 

 Winter Distkibution — About the same. 



Breeds regularly along the New Jersey coast, and seems to be par- 

 tially resident, as two specimens were taken by Mr. W. E. D. Scott 

 at West Creek, Ocean county, N. J., January 21 and 22, 1879, and 

 others were seen at the same time {B. N. 0. C, 1879). It is found 

 along the Delaware river, at least as far up as Philadelphia, and may 

 breed sparingly in Delaware county, Pa. It is also reported to as- 

 cend the Susquehanna as far as the Pennsylvania line. 



Family Icteridse — The Orioles. 



Ten species of Icteridce are included in the avifauna of eastern 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Six of these breed generally through- 

 out these States: the Grackle, Red-winged Blackbird, Meadow- 

 lark, Cowbird, Orchard and Baltimore Orioles, the first three being 

 the most abundant. Three species are transient : the Bobolink, 

 which occurs mostly along the large river and coast marshes, and 

 the Bronzed Grackle and Rusty Blackbird, neither of which is very 

 common. The Yellow-headed Blackbird is an accidental straggler. 

 The Meadowlark is resident in the southern parts of Pennsylvania 

 and New Jersey, and the Rusty Blackbird, Red-winged Blackbird, 

 Cowbird and Purple Grackle occur irregularly during winter. 



*See Rhoads' " Crow Roosts and Roosting Crows," Ainer. Nat., 1886, pp. 691 

 and 777. An important treatise on the subject. 



