14 REPOET OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



identify birds that he may see, to give a brief sketch of the more 

 characteristic habits of the common species, and at the same time to 

 include such facts and records on the distribution of all species as will 

 make the report a thoroughly up-to-date list of the birds of the State. 

 The measurements have been taken from Ridgway's "Manual of 

 North American Birds," and in the keys some points have been taken 

 from this work and from Chapman's "Hand Book," though they are 

 mainly original. The measurements of eggs are from Reed's "North 

 American Birds' Eggs." The facts upon which the statements on 

 food habits are based are from the publications of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, while the descriptions are drawn up from 

 specimens in my own collection or that of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, to which institution I am also indebted for 

 the use of the volumes of Wilson and Audubon, from which most of 

 the plates have been reproduced. To the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies, through the president, Mr. William Butcher, I am 

 indebted for the use of a number of excellent half-tones prepared for 

 the Association's Educational Leaflets. 



All the published lists and papers relating to the New Jersey birds 

 have been consulted, as well as manuscript data received from W. 

 BeWitt Miller, Samuel N. Rhoads, R. C. Caskey, C. J. Hunt, Henry 

 W. Fowler, H. Walker Hand, W. B. Evans, George S. Morris, A. P. 

 Willets, C. J. Pennock, William L. Baily, J. A. G. Rehn, H. H. Hann, 

 J. P. Callender, J. H. Patterson, P. B. Philipp, F. M. Chapman, Dr. 

 Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Henry Hales, W. A. Babson, Dr. William C. 

 Braislin, B. S. Bowdish, W. H. Werner, W. W. Justice, Jr., R. C. 

 Harlow, A. H. Phillips, Dr. Wm. E. Hughes, Stewardson Brown, and 

 D. E. Harrower, to all of whom the writer expresses his obligation. 

 To Mr. S. R. Morse, Curator of the New Jersey State Museum, I am 

 also under obligations for many courtesies and suggestions. 



WITMER STONE, 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, 



October 31st, 1908.* Philadelphia, Pa. 



* Additional records have been added up to June 15th, 1909, as the work was 

 passing through the press. 



