40 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
WINTER BIRDS. 
Birds also have certain limits within which they find winter 
quarters, varying as the weather is cold or warn, and the quantity 
of food to be found. 
During the mild winters a large number of birds remain in the 
southern part of the State. The section along the New Jersey 
banks of the Delaware, in the vicintiy of the tide-water creeks, 
seems to furnish the most favorable winter quarters. 
The following birds are the most common winter visitors in 
Southern New Jersey and along the Delaware: Snowbirds, Gold¬ 
finches, Purple Finches, Pine Finches, White-breasted Nuthatches, 
Brown Creepers, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers, Black-capped 
and Carolina Chickadees and Tufted Tits are generally found 
through woodland and orchards, and in sheltered thickets are 
found Cardinals, White-throated Sparrows, Carolina and Winter 
Wrens and Blue Jays, also Golden-crowned Kinglets and Cedar 
Birds are often found here. 
Crows are very abundant in immense flights passing to and from 
their roosts in the evening and early morning near Camden. In 
the winter of 1902 and 1903 large numbers roosted near Mer- 
chantsville, Camden county. Hawks occur in larger numbers in 
winter than summer. Beside the summer species are found the 
Pigeon Hawk, Peregrine and Black Hawk, Meadowlarks and 
Quail. Pheasants or Partridges are always to be found here, also 
a few Rusty Grackles, Sparrows, Tit Larks, Horned Larks and 
Snow Buntings. Robins and Bluebirds usually winter in this 
section. Now and then a few Flickers, Yellow-bellied Sap-suckers, 
Red-winged Blackbirds and Purple Grackles, Redpolls, Cross¬ 
bills and Northern Shrikes are seen here. 
TIDE-WATER—MARSHES AND CREEKS. 
Birds along the marshes and creeks are very numerous. Car¬ 
dinals were very plentiful, but the great forest fires either 
destroyed many of them or drove them away; yet some are still 
found. The Myrtle Warblers and Hermit Thrush are found, 
beside several other species, but not in great numbers. 
