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In the winter of 1859-60, Thure Kumlien made a number of ineffectual 

 attempts to shoot a specimen that came daily to feed on some hog oflfal 

 that had been hung upon a neighbor's fence when butchering. He 

 saw the bird plainly on two or three occasions when he did not have 

 a gun. This was in Jefferson County. A specimen was also taken 

 near Ashland in 1880. Deer hunters from northern Wisconsin report 

 seeing specimens, but very rarely. During severe winters they are 

 sometimes seen about lumber camps. A pine-land hunter with whom 

 we were acquainted, said he had seen perhaps half a dozen in all his 

 experience of many years in northern Wisconsin." (Birds of Wis- 

 consin, 1903, p. 84.) 



Genus CYANOCITTA Strick. 



218. Cyanocitta cristata (Linn.). 

 Blue Jay. 



Distr. : Eastern North America to the Plains and from the Fur 

 Countries south to eastern Texas, the Gulf coast and northern Florida. 



Adult: Crown, bluish purple, the feathers elongated in the form 

 of a crest and tipped with black; forehead and spot in front of the eye, 

 black; back, bluish purple; throat, whitish; a stripe of black from 



Blue Jay. 



