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preceding overlap each other in this region during winter, and so are very generally con- 

 fused throughout the state. The species and sub-species are thought generally to be 

 one and the same bird. 



Family CORVID^^^]. Crows, Magpies etc. 

 Pood habits rather omnivorous. 



Subfamily GARRULINiE. Magpies amd Jays. 

 Genus CYANOCITTA Stbickl. 



20()-477-(84i)). t'yauocitta eristata (Linn.). * Blue Jay. 



Very abundant; throughout the state; common in all seasons; reported from 

 Presque Isle and Bois Blanc Island; "common at Grand Traverse County" (M. L. 

 Leach); " abundant at Mackinac Island" (S. E. White): "not common on Keweenaw 

 Point " (Kneeland); "common in Upper Peninsula" (A.H.Boies); "common at Iron 

 Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); breeds; nests in thick foliage, especially evergreens, very 

 rarely in barns, one case noted; eggs fovir to five, "six" (E. Clute and D.Reynolds), 

 light green or drab, spotted with light brown; feeds on acorns, hazel nuts, insects, 

 fruits, young birds and birds eggs etc.; often kills birds, especially nestlings; Dr. G. W. 

 Topping, of DeWitt, has repeatedly seen these birds lake young Sparrows and Gold 

 Finches from the nests and then eat them; "killed a young Baltimore Oriole and took 

 its brain, leaving the rest of the carcass" (L. W. Watkins); an English Sparrow 

 received similar treatment from this bird, on the college campus in the spring of 1893; 

 a rather doubtful friend; note harsh; too handeome to kill. Prof. J. A. Allen informs 

 me that he has taken a great number of the eggs of the tent caterpillar, Clisiocampa 

 americuna, from their stomachs in winter in Massachusetts. 



Genus PICA Cuv. 



li01-47o-(.*M7). Pica pica hudsoiiiea (Sab.). American Magpie. 



Said to wander to Michigan (see Youth's Companion, December, 1892); "I have 

 seen a few specimens taken at Eagle River" (Kneeland); Butler's Birds of Indiana, p, 

 113; Ridgway's Manual of North American Birds, p. 352, and Jordan's Manual of Ver- 

 tebrates; " very doubtful " (Dr. A. K. Fisher). 



Genus PERISOREU8 Bonap. 



Canada Jay, rednced. 



