. The birds of New Jersey . ipally of insects, with verylittle fruit, being frequently occupied in looking forinsects and larvae in acorns, nuts and rotten parts ofbark. Chippy. See Chipping Sparrow. Chippy^ Winter. See Tree Sparrow. Clape, See Flicker. Coot^ Cfoir-dnck., or Blue Peter.—Lejigth, fifteenor sixteen inches; extent, twenty-eight inches; bill, four-fifths of an inch. It is of a slate color with a black headand an ivory-white bill, an inch and a half long; thewings and tail are tipped with white and the legs andfeet are greenish. It builds its nest of reeds and grasses,in fresh wate
. The birds of New Jersey . ipally of insects, with verylittle fruit, being frequently occupied in looking forinsects and larvae in acorns, nuts and rotten parts ofbark. Chippy. See Chipping Sparrow. Chippy^ Winter. See Tree Sparrow. Clape, See Flicker. Coot^ Cfoir-dnck., or Blue Peter.—Lejigth, fifteenor sixteen inches; extent, twenty-eight inches; bill, four-fifths of an inch. It is of a slate color with a black headand an ivory-white bill, an inch and a half long; thewings and tail are tipped with white and the legs andfeet are greenish. It builds its nest of reeds and grasses,in fresh water marshes, the number of the eggs beingeight to fifteen, the color pale yellowish white, thicklyspeckled with brown, and the size one and four-fifths byone and one-fourth inches. It breeds from the northernUnited States northward and spends the winter in thesouthern United States and Central America, It arrivesin New Jersey in April, but is more plentiful in the fallmigration towards the end of September or first of Octo-. ClIICKAUKES. THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 43 ber. It is generally found in large rivers and bays. Itsfood consists of aquatic plants and grasses. Coot^ Blfick. See American Scoter. Coot^ Scfi. See Surf Scoter. Coot^ lT*liit€-tving;cfl. See White-winged Scoter. Corniorfiut^ or Shag.^-l^h\& bird is a rare visitor toNew Jersey, breeding from New England to Greenlandand in the winter months coming south occasionally asfar as New Jersey. It is thirty-six inches in length, thebill being three inches, and the general color a glossyblack ; the upper wing is black and brown and the headis sprinkled with white ; the back is a light brown. Itbreeds on rocky cliffs, surfaces of rocky islands and some-times in trees, the nest being conical and made of sticksand seaweed. The eggs are from four to six in number,of a pale bluish white, two and a half by one and a halfinches in size. Its food is fish. Cornioratil^ nouhle-erested.—This bird is very sim-ilar to the foregoing,
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