AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 7 



thing out of his throat, going through all sorts of antics, emitting a gurgling 

 note, and apparently enjoying the whole performance. Why. who has not 

 been fooled, thinking a Red-shouldered Hawk was circling above, and after 

 looking in vain, seeing our blue friend go flying away, screaming "Jay! 

 Jay !" I began to pride myself that I knew the Jay's notes, when with a 

 company of bird lovers, we heard a note, clear as the stroke of a bell, and 

 which no one knew, until the owner of the place told us it was the "bell 

 note of the Jay," and often heard there, yet I had not heard it before, 

 nor have I since, a matter which offers a field of inquiry. So, too, the Jay's 

 nesting habits were a surprise, for I had been told of the Jay's leaving 

 their nests because of one's looking into them while containing eggs,_yet my 

 experience has been they are most easily tamed — else I must have known ex- 

 ceptional birds. 



Photo from life by R. H. Beebe. 

 Blue- J ay on Nest. 



