Rural School Leaflet 



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From three to six pale olive-green eggs, spotted with brown, arc laid 

 during the last of April or the first of May. 



During the nesting season blue jays incur the enmity of all the other 



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birds and of mankind as well by their habit of robbing the nests of smaller 

 birds and eating the eggs or the young. At other times, however, they 

 do considerable good by destroying injurious insects. 



