NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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fruits, among whicli grape? and blackberries predominate. The results of the 

 stomach examination show,] (1) that the Jay eats many noxious insects; (2) that its 

 habit of robbing the nests of other birds is much less common than has been as- 

 serted; and (3) that it does little harm to agriculture, since all but a small amount 

 of corn eaten is waste grain." 



477o. riiOEIDA BlitTE JAY. Cyanocitta crlstata ftorinoola Coues. Oeog. 

 Dist.— Florida. 



This Is a smaller bird than the last, with less white on the tips of the second- 

 aries and tail-feathers. A set of four eggs in my cabinet from Florida do not differ 

 essentially from those of G. crlstata, having the brown type of coloration for the 

 ground-color. 



478. STELLEK'S JAT. Cyanocitta stelleri (Gmel.) 

 aorth to bitka, south to Northern California. 



Geog. Dist. — Paciflo coast, 



Steller's Jay and Nest (Cheney del.) 



Steller's Jay is an abundant species along the Pacific coast from Northern Cali- 

 fornia northward. ' In Oregon it is a very common resident. He is the same bold, 

 noisy fellow as is his eastern cousin, the^Blue Jay. The nest of this bird is built 

 in. firs and other trees, and in bushes, ranging.from eight to twenty-five feet from the 

 ground; it is very bulky, and made of large sticks and twigs, generally with a supply 

 of mud, and a lining of fine, dry grasses and hair. The eggs, three to five in number, 

 are usually pale green or bluish-green, speckled with olive-brown, with an average 

 size of 1.28X.85. Mr. Norris has a set of four eggs collected near Salem, Oregon, 

 May 4_1888. This set was taken from a nest in a thorn bush, twelve feet from the 



