THE OOLOQI8T 



735. 



Com- 



749. 



Black-capped Chickadee. 

 mon permanent resident. 

 748. Golden-crowned Kinglet. Rather 

 rare spring visitor. 

 Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Rather 

 common in summer. 



755. Wood Thrush. Rare summer 



resident. 



756. Veery. Rather common summer 



resident. 

 759B. Hermit Thrush. Rare spring 



visitant. 

 761. American Robin. Very common 



summer resident. 

 766. Bluebird. Very common sum- 

 mer resident. 

 May' 22, 1920. 

 Note. — The plates illustrating tliis 

 article were published in the Decem- 

 ber number. — Editor. 



SOME NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. MI- 

 GRATION RECORDS. 



This year, 1920, probably on account 

 of the mild fall and early winter, many 

 birds have stayed much later than 

 usual. Some of the most notable of 

 these have been the Purple Martin, 

 which stayed until Oct. 20; the 

 Phoebe, Oct. 30; the Yellow-billed 

 Cuckoo, Oct. 30; the Towhee, Dec. 30; 

 the Prairie Warbler, Nov. 14; Black- 

 crowned Night Heron, Nov. 19; Blue- 

 bird, Nov. 24; Chipping Sparrow, Dec. 

 4; Purple Grackle, Dec. 20; Killdeer, 

 Dec. 25; Sora Rail, Dec. 24. Red- 

 winged Blackbirds seem to be winter- 

 ing, along with Meadow Larks, Robins, 

 White-throated and Fox Sparrows. 



Stuart T. Danforth. 



SOME BIRD NOTES FROM THE 

 PINE BARRENS OF NEW JERSEY 



The country in which these obser- 

 vations were made is typical pine bar- 

 ren country lying about four miles 

 southeast of Browns Mills, N. J. The 

 soil consists of pure white sand with 

 pine trees twelve to fifteen feet high 

 growing everywhere, and almost every- 

 where there is a more or less thick 

 undergrowth of various shrubby and 

 herbaceous plants. The country is not 



nearly as barren as is often supposed, 

 and it is a wondreful place for flower- 

 ing plants, including the Pyxie or 

 flowering moss, and many other plants 

 that are peculiar to the pine barren 

 region. Here and there are impene- 

 trable cedar swamps, which are the 

 sources of all the streams in the 

 region. The waters are often dammed 

 up, and used as reservoirs for cran- 

 berry bogs. In June I had my first 

 encounter with a real Jersey cedar 

 swamp. It was several square miles 

 in area. The edge was sharply de- 

 fined, forming an impassable wall. The 

 cedar swamp was composed mainly of 

 white cedars about 20 feet tall, and 

 swamp magnolias about 6 feet high, 

 with a conglomerate mass of under- 

 growth, and underneath all a knee- 

 deep layer of soaking wet sphagnum 

 moss. The whole formed a jungle so 

 thick that it was a wonder to me that 

 bird or insect could find room to move 

 in it, yet a loud bird chorus came from 

 within the swamp, and as for insects, 

 well, it seemed as though evry kind of 

 noxious Diptera ever invented was 

 present by the hundreds of millions, 

 including everything from horseflies 

 and deer-flies to mosquitoes and 

 midges. But as the bird fauna was al- 

 so very abundant I endured these 

 pests for awhile, and even forced my 

 way a few feet within the swamp, 

 though vegetation was too dense to see 

 much in there. 



Blue Jays, which are rare or absent 

 at this time of year in most of the sur- 

 rounding pine barren district, were 

 breeding abundantly in the cedar 

 swamp. The Carolina Chickadee was 

 also found commonly in the swamp, 

 although it was not noted in the sur- 

 rounding region until after the breed- 

 ing season. The notes of the Black 

 and White Warbler issued from within 

 the swamp, indicating that it was 

 breeding in there. Flickers and Mary- 

 land, Yello-vvthroats abounded, a'n4 I 



