NESTLINGS OF FOREST AND MARSH 
mother jay will usually leave without pro- 
test if phere are oenks eggs in the nest, and if 
Sy” # there are young she 
contents herself with 
~~ squawking in close imi- 
\ tation of a catbird’s 
““ meouw.” 
And what 
1 homely babies 
ea are those newly 
hatched jays! 
Of a ‘sickly, 
w~@ greenish color, 
Btheir skin 
" seems tough, 
like leather. It 
is impossible to 
See describe them 
Nests devastated by jays. Upper, tes eG in sufficiently 
mB agi 0k repellentterms. 
They look as if they had been dead for days 
and were mummified. Have the parent jays 
no sense of beauty, I wonder, that they regard 
these ugly nestlings with such tender pride? 
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