ý BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 545 
New Jersey, on each of the intervening months. My at- 
tention was first drawn to it, by noting several in March, 
before any other species of the family had appeared. In 
February of the following year one specimen was seen and 
shot, and since then (1863), it has been met with sparsely 
in November, December, and January. These seattered 
Warblers are associated with the regular winter residents, 
Creepers, Nuthatches and Titmice. 
14. Butcher Bird (Collyrio borealis). We have seen the 
Shrike as early as September quite abundant, but more 
generally it is in December and January that it is to, be 
readily met with. No species visiting us from the North is 
more uncertain in its movements, and occasionally a winter 
passes without any being seen about. The snowy winters 
are those in which they are most numerous, and during such 
a winter their peculiarities are more readily studied, as they 
are during "open winters" far more shy and retired in 
their habits. With us they follow closely after loose com- 
panies of Snow-birds (Junco hyemalis), and seem to live 
very largely upon them. On the approach of warm weather 
they do not all go beyond the boundaries of the state, as the- 
writer has seen them in Sussex county during the breeding 
season. But very few individuals do remain however. 
15. Winter Wren (Troglodytes hyemalis). So like them 
in its appearance, and arriving in as large numbers so closely 
upon the disappearance of the Troglodytes edon, there is a 
wide spread impression among persons with a smattering 
of disjointed ornithology, that they are one and the same 
bird, and that simply the former habit of migration has 
ceased. This absurd idea has gained ground in consequence 
of the very great accession to their numbers of the T. hye- 
malis that now annually appear. During the winter they 
are one of our most numerous species, ranking with Passer- 
ella iliaca and Lophophanes bicolor in this respect. 
Like the “Shrike” ( Collyrio borealis), they, too, do not 
depart wholly from us in the spring. Their numbers with 
AMER. NATURALIST, VOL. IV. 69 
