DR. JEKYLL 
from his foster parents that their own young 
do. And yet these same foster parents will 
bring the nestlings of other birds to him for 
food. 
This banding together of the jays on all 
occasions against a common foe helps to 
make them aterror to all woodland dwellers. 
I doubt whether even a hungry hawk would 
attempt to rob them, and hence the jays 
increase and the song birds decrease. 
Early one morning I witnessed an amusing 
demonstration of the jay’s peculiar devotion 
to his mate. Part of the lawn had been 
newly raked over with fresh earth, and here 
the two jays came for their breakfast, as 
well as to get food for their young. Their 
nest was across the street in the next block, 
about three hundred feet away. The male 
was either less hungry or more fortunate in 
hunting, for he finished some minutes before 
the female. Then, having gathered four 
large angle-worms in his beak, he flew to a 
low perch to wait for her. Seeing that she 
did not hurry, he expostulated gently with 
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