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beneath. Head, and tips of tail and certain wing-feathers, 
dull white; but hind-head very dark. 
(b). A nest of the Canada Jay, found by Mr. Boardman, 
and described by Dr. Brewer, ‘‘ is woven above a rude platform 
of sticks and twigs crossed and interlaced, furnishing a roughly 
made hemispherical base and periphery. Upon this an inner 
and more artistic nest has been wrought, made of a soft felting 
of fine mosses closely impacted and lined with feathers.” An 
egg in my collection measures 1°20 X ‘75 of an inch, and is 
grayish, evenly marked with brown. Unlike other specimens, 
it is green-tinted. 
(c). The Canada Jays do not much inhabit New England, so 
far as I know, except in Northern Maine, where they are resi- 
dent. As Audubon has apparently had many opportunities of 
observing these birds, I shall here quote his biography nearly in 
full, as I have already quoted one of Wilson’s. ‘I have found 
this species of Jay,” says Audubon, “ breeding in the State of 
Maine, where many individuals belonging to it reside the whole 
year, and where in fact so many as fifteen or twenty may be 
seen in the course of a day by a diligent person anxious to 
procure them. In the winter, their numbers are constantly 
augmented by those which repair to that country from places 
farther North. They advance to the southward as far as the 
upper parts of the State of New York, where the person who 
first gave intimation to Mr. Witson that the species was to be 
found in the Union, shot seven or eight one morning, from 
which number he presented one to the esteemed author of the 
‘ American Ornithology,’ who afterwards procured some in the 
same neighborhood. This species is best known in Maine by 
the name of the ‘ Carrion-bird,’ which is usually applied to it 
on account of its carnivorons propensities. When their appe- 
tite is satisfied, they become shy, and are in the habit of hiding 
themselves amongst close woods or thickets ; but when hungry, 
they show no alarm at the approach of man, nay, become fa- 
miliar, troublesome, and sometimes so very bold as to enter 
the camps of the ‘lumberers,’ or attend to rob them of the bait 
affixed to their traps. My generous friend, E>warp Harris, 
