132 Sn fu. FCM: A flungry Jay. 
viride, A, iro ha _ Sled ie) Bles pitas spaiend sae BAe sia 
Boise chium, Ophiog , Lycopodium clavatum, L. s 
and Polypodium phegopteris sig at Ingen, stn Fane Bae oe. Bau 
setum sylvaticum As Pious Lanc. S.].. Proc. Liverp. 
F. Club for 1889, Subs. 1866, a 
TW. Sagano ORK S.W. 
[Ferns, etc., obse by] the Yorkshire Natiiealinte’ Union at 
Penistone and Du nae Bridge [gth July 1892; Lguisetum palustre and 
var. polystachyum, £. limosum, and Pilepocisiine vulgare], at., Sept.” 
1892, 
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NOTE—ORNITHOLOGY. 
A Hungry Jay.—The soe tiers of ree (Garrulus riragewlaaceth in Fag 
numbers in Dumfriesshire, and the consequent notes in the oh 
brought back a curious si ght I once ditneas ed. In the winter, ieee 
snow and frost lasted ions, as readers may remember, and the birds ree 
badly. I was then living in a house about which were many trees an 
shrubberies, with a wood only a few hundred yards distant. There was 
no other house fora kombat of a mile or so, and we had birds in quantity. 
It was our tact ae ang ape oo pan from strings fastened to a large 
lilac on a rockery e bac the house. These delicacies were for the 
Tits, Thrushes, Biaekbirds, Starlings they lived in a oe sed pigeon ee 
and an occasional Rook c pati trie steal. In wood were one, I 
sit two pairs o ta ys. Cra Stink vhhad the ‘ ueines ’ but dare ie 
attack the swi Pde ae or the: Bla ckbirds and Sparrows kept him busy. 
One ing, on looking out of a window opposite the lilac, I saw the 
Jay i in the. pear a bots Rte skbird also, much excited. The Jay, after a fer 
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other bird on its Hench, Sa he Jay er to swing and flutter as best it could. 
All the firds 3 in the trees near we joi in a chorus and plagued the prisoner 
by flying about it. It pulled and peated ari and opened its beak to its” 
: a Ww 
from its beak. e whole act lasted ties! a few moments, e cord, 
I suppose, on emp ately be disgorged = Jay several times afterwards 
visited us; he never again fell into temptatio 
In regard to t “toe distribution of the species in North Lancashire—or 
perhaps Lancashire is the better way to put it—Mitchell, ‘ Birds of 
seek: on the pene of the Holker Woods.—S. L. TTY, 
piece oak Gee I 
