. The birds of New Jersey . ^ severe seasons they are NORTJIKKX SllKIKIv. THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 139 The song of this bird is an improvement on that of theforegoing and somewhat resembles the tune of a Catbird. The food consists of grasshoppers, beetles and large in-sects, but principally of English Sparrows. It obtains itsname of Butcher Bird from a habit it shares with the pre-ceding species of impaling its prey on thorns, to remainthere until wanted. ISiskiii., Pine. See Pine Finch. Skinitner.^ Black., or , eighteeninches; extent, three feet, eight inches;

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. The birds of New Jersey . ^ severe seasons they are NORTJIKKX SllKIKIv. THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 139 The song of this bird is an improvement on that of theforegoing and somewhat resembles the tune of a Catbird. The food consists of grasshoppers, beetles and large in-sects, but principally of English Sparrows. It obtains itsname of Butcher Bird from a habit it shares with the pre-ceding species of impaling its prey on thorns, to remainthere until wanted. ISiskiii., Pine. See Pine Finch. Skinitner.^ Black., or , eighteeninches; extent, three feet, eight inches; upper bill, three,lower nearly four inches, compressed almost flat, resemb-ling the blades of shears. The female is somewhat smal-ler. The forehead, sides of the neck and upper parts arewhite, the upper parts and the wings black, and the tailblack, broadly edged with white and brown. The nest isa depression in the beach. The eggs are either three orfour in numl)er, white or cream in color, and one andthree fourths by one and one-third inches in size. It wasform

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