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Family CORVID/E. Crows, Magpies, etc. 

 Food habits rather omnivorous. 



Subfamily GARRULIN^T'L MAdriEs and Jays. 



Genus CYANOCITTA Striokl. 

 203 477 (349). Cyanocitta cristata (Linn.). *Blue Jay. 



Very abundant; throughout the state; common in all seasons; reported from 

 Presque Isle Co. and Bois Blanc Island; " common at Grand Traverse Co."' (M. 

 L. Leach); "abundant at Mackinac Island, where it is useful as a scavenger" 

 (S. E. White); "not common on Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); "common in 

 Upper Peninsula "' (A. H. Boies); " abundant resident at St. Joseph and Albion, 

 and common at Palmer, Marquette Co., where it arrives late in March"' (O. B. 

 Warren); "common at Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); breeds: nests in thick 

 foliage, especially evergreens, very rarely in barns, one case noted; Robt. H. Wol- 

 cott also found a nest in a* barn at Ann Arbor, June 8, 1893. The nest was on 

 a cross beam and had fresh eggs in it; eggs four to five, "six" (E. Clute and 

 D. Reynolds); light green or drab, spotted with light brown; feeds on acorns, 

 hazel nuts, insects, fruits, young birds and birds eggs, etc.; often kills birds, 

 especially nestlings; Dr. G. W. Topping, of Dewitt, has repeatedly seen these 

 birds take yovmg Sparrows and Gold Fincljes from their nests and then eat 

 them; " killed a young Baltimore Oriole and took its brain, leaving the rest of 

 the carcass" (L. W. Watkins); an English Sparrow received similar treatment 

 from this bird on the college campus in the spring of 1893; a rather doubtful 

 friend; note harsh; too handsome to kill. Prof. J. A. Allen informs me that he has 

 taken a great number of the eggs of the tent caterpillar, Clisiocampa americana, 

 from their stomachs in winter in Massachusetts. N. A. Eddy has seen it feeding 

 on the entrails of an ox in the lumber camps of Northern Michigan. 



Genus PICA Cuv. 

 204-475-(347). Pica pica hndsonica {Sab.). American Magpie. 



Said to wander to Michigan (see Youths' Companion, December. 1892); "I have 

 seen a few specimens taken at Eagle River " (Kneeland); Butler's Birds of Indiana, 

 p. 113; Ridgway's Manual of North American Birbs, p. 352, and Jordan's Manual of 

 Vertebrates; "very doubtful" (Dr. A. K. Fisher). 



Genus PERISOREUS Bonap. 



Canada Jay, reduced. 



