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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, laughing, black-backed, 

 and several other gulls; and irregularly certain wandering 



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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 tierce in win- 

 ter than at any other time, and exercise all their cunning 



