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allan Brooks
BLUE JAY
Published by the National Association of Audubon Societies
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No. 24 Blue Jay
Length 1134 inches
The Blue Jay, like the Crow, has few warm
friends. There are thousands of bird-lovers, how-
ever, whose feelings of toleration and half-hearted
admiration might be changed into genuing. Sove
At other !! inde-
WPyriends. A flock of Jays
and respect if he would only mend certain1 his
ways. As matters stand, he is a sort of Dor. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde in the bird world. It is onty during
the nesting season that the Blue Jay's habits are
especially objectionable, for at this time he is
known to be a thief and a murderer, and his lik-
ing for the eggs and nestlings of other birds is
only too well substantiated.
Sprightly
pendent bearing, together with his handsome coat,
trooping through the autumn woods is enough to
excite the admiration of any bird-lover. The Blue
Jay is well known as a mimic and ventriloquist.
The nest is carefully made of twigs, and is lined
with rootlets. It is generally placed in a crotch of
a tree. The eggs are from four to six, pale olive-
green, speckled with brown.
Classification: Order Passeres. Family Corvidæ.
Scientific name: Cyanocitta cristata.
Range: Throughout North America east of the Rockies,
and from Labrador to Florida.
No. 24 from set of 50 Winter Birds of the Northeastern United
States. Published by the National Association of Audubon So-
cieties, 1974 Broadway, New York City. Price per set, in a box,
$1.00 post paid.
