THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 27 



THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 



NOTE. ID the classification of birds an attempt has 

 been made to give them under their common names, by 

 which they are best known in New Jersey, exceptions 

 being made in cases where the birds belong to some species 

 represented by a number of others. 



fir A*. I/ittle^ Dovekie or Sea Dove. Length, eight 

 to nine inches; extent, fourteen inches; bill, half an inch; 

 head, white and black; back, black; breast, upper brown, 

 lower, white; belly, white; sides, white; tail, black and 

 white; upper wing, sooty black; under wing, black and 

 white; legs, black; feet, black. It lays one or two eggs, 

 of a bluish white color, one and four- fifths by one and 

 one-fourth inches in size, on ledges and in crevices of 

 rocks. It is a regular winter visitant to the New Jersey 

 coast, coming down from the North Atlantic and Atlantic 

 and Arctic oceans. It feeds on crabs and small fish. 



Ink. Razor-It illed,or Tinker. Length, sixteen and 

 a half inches; bill, one and a quarter inches; head, black; 

 back, black; breast, white; belly, white; sides, black; 

 tail, black; wings, black; legs, black; feet, black. In 

 winter the front of the neck and the sides are white. It 

 lays one or two eggs, pale blue, spotted with brown, 

 three by two inches in size, in crevices and fissures in 

 rocks. It is a regular winter visitant to the New Jersey 

 coast, breeding in Maine and northward. Its cry re- 

 sembles a grunt or groan. It feeds on crabs and small fish. 



Baldpate. See Widgeon. 



Bee Martin. See Kingbird. 



