140 FLORIDA 



Chewinks of both kinds (red-eyes and white- 

 eyes, Northerners and Southerners) are calling 

 and singing. Blue yellow-backed warblers are 

 musical after their manner (they hardly need to 

 be singers, being so exquisite in color, form, and 

 motion), and white-eyed vireos are numerous 

 enough, though nothing like so plentiful as at 

 Miami. Here, as there, they have no thought of 

 hiding their light under a bushel. 



It is like old times to see Florida jays sitting 

 on the chimney-tops of the summer cottages along 

 the dunes behind the beach. Thus it was that I 

 saw them first, at Daytona, nine years ago. As a 

 friend and I stopped this morning to rest in the 

 shade of a piazza, one came and stood upon the 

 railing and eyed us long and curiously. " Have 

 you nothing edible about you ? " he seemed to 

 say. If we had had anything to offer the beggar, 

 I am confident he would have hopped upon our 

 knees. 1 As it was, he approached within five or 

 six feet while we chirped and talked to him. 

 Florida jays are strange creatures for tameness, 

 and if it were thought worth while could readily 

 be domesticated. 



It seemed natural, also, to see pelicans flying in 

 small flocks up the beach, just over the breakers, 



1 We often fed the birds afterward, and one or two, at least, 

 were never shy about coming into our laps. 



