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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 tc be 

 one and the same bird. 



Family CORVIM3. Crows, Magpies etc. 

 Food habits rather omnivorous. 



Subfamily GARRULINjE. Magpies and Jays. 

 Genus CYANOOITTA Stbickl. 



200-477-(349). Cyanocitta cristata (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 four 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. 

 Torping, of DeWitt, has repeatedly seen these birds take 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. 



201-475-(347). Pica pica hndsonica (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 PERISOREUS Bonap. 



I'anada Jay, reduced. 



