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time, however, one must go as far inland as Arlington or Belmont to find 

 the birds in any numbers. In certain parts of these towns, as well as in Lex- 

 ington and Waltham, they are common enough at all seasons, especially in 

 extensive and primitive tracts of woodland where pines, hemlocks and Vir- 

 ginia junipers abound. In summer they are chiefly confined to the woods, 

 but in winter, when the weather is not too cold and windy, they often venture 

 well out into the open country, visiting apple orchards, trees and shrubbery along 

 roadsides, and briery thickets bordering swamps and the courses of brooks. 

 They are still more venturesome, as well as much more ubiquitous, in autumn 

 when the flights of more northern-bred birds are passing southward. Indeed there 

 are days in early October, just before the leaves begin to fall, when the whole 

 country seems alive with Blue Jays and when one is rarely out of sound of their 

 shrill voices, even in the heart of towns and villages. 



128. Perisoreus canadensis (Linn.). 

 Canada Jay. 



Casual visitor from northern New England. 



There are two records of the occurrence of the Canada Jay in the Cam- 

 bridge Region. The first of these, relating to a bird in my collection, taken 

 by Mr. E. B. Winship, is unquestionably authentic in the main, although ap- 

 parently inaccurate in respect to certain of its published details. Mr. J. R. 

 Mann, who mounted the specimen, receiving it in the flesh from Mr. Winship, 

 originally reported ^ that it was killed on October 16, 1889, at Arlington Heights. 

 He has since written me that the correct date was "probably" the 17th 

 instead of i6th of October; and Mr. W. P. Hadley, who was with Mr. 

 Winship when the bird was shot, tells me that it was found not at Arlington 

 Heights, but on the Winship farm in Lexington, very near the southern borders 

 of Woburn. It was in deciduous woods, composed chiefly of maples, and 

 appeared to be quite alone. 



The other record rests on too slight evidence or, at least, authority, 

 to inspire much confidence. It concerns a bird which is assumed to have 

 belonged to the present species and which was seen at Arlington Heights on May 

 12, 1896. '■^ 



1 J. R. Mann, Ornithologist and Oologist, XIV, 1889, 176. 



2 W. .S. Kennedy, In Portia's Gardens, 1897, 221. 



