Photograph by J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead. 
YOUNG JAYS. 
THE Jay, which may soon be reckoned among 
the lost birds of England, is 
The Jay. an interesting example of color- 
ation in animals. It has a 
variegated and beautful plumage, and when 
seen flying across an open sunlit space is 
nearly as conspicuous as a magpie; but 
(says Mr. W. H. Hudson) among the dense 
foliage of the woods and thickets he inhabits 
it is as difficult to see a jay as a woodwren ; 
and it is doubtless owing to this fact, and 
to his extreme wariness and cunning, that 
he still survives in many parts of Hngland 
where the magpie has now been extirpated, 
supplied us with the following information 
concerning this gifted collie:—“Jock is now 
about six years old,” he writes, “and was 
brought from Deeside when about ten 
months old as a present to my mother. It 
is difficult to say of which of us he is 
fondest, and he divides his time between us 
pretty equally. He was, of course, quite 
untrained when he came south, and I never 
formed any definite intention of training 
him in this way; but having noticed his 
exceptional intelligence, I took to teaching 
him a few simple tricks when he was about 
two years old, and 
although both species are pursued by game- 
keepers with the same stupid and deadly 
animosity. A thick holly or other evergreen 
is one of the favourite sites for a jay’s nest, 
which is built of sticks and twigs, sometimes 
mixed with mud, the cup-shaped cavity being 
lined with fine roots. Four to seven eggs are 
laid, pale greyish-green in ground colour, thickly 
speckled and spotted all over with pale olive- 
brown. The young birds follow their parents 
for some weeks after leaving the nest. 
Ny 
In a previous number of AnimMAL LirE 
Roe Oe some pictures of a 
Collie, Clever little fox terrier who 
counted thought-reading 
among his many accomplishments. We 
are now able to give two portraits of a 
local celebrity, well known and widely 
respected at Hove. His name is “Jock,” 
and his master is Mr. F. D. Darbyshire, 
of Melrose Hall Hotel, who has kindly «socx,» ram BRIGHTON CELEBRITY. 
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found him so apt a 
pupilthat I became 
interested in the 
cultivation of his 
powers. He has 
considerably 
greater brain de- 
velopment than. 
most collies; in- 
deed, his breadth 
of head rather 
suggests the re- 
triever, though he 
‘s pure bred. I 
am often asked 
‘how’ I taught 
him. This is a 
question I find 
difficult to answer 
categorically. I 
think it is an im- 
portant point that 
I did not make a 
