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A NOTIIKK r friends, is the jay bird, a 



/\ beauty in plumage, friendly indisposition, 

 J~\ « good husband and father, but dangerous 

 l.j the nests and eggs of oilier birds; His call note 

 i- high, elear, and rather antagonistic: "D'jay, 

 d'jay,'' certainly an obtrusive and self-satisfied 

 note. He asks no favour, <<>urls no bird but his 



mile 



He 



uttevthi 

 impress 

 e if he i 



1 always get Hi 



not avoid trouli 



it. I'crehcd on ;i can: 



spring, when other birds 



cryonceora dozen times, 

 on from it that he would 

 el it, and usually he finds 

 >ieuoiis branch in early 

 are singing mating songs, 



" D'jay! D'jay! D'jaij! 



the bluejay sings: "G.e-rul-lup" over and over, 

 making rather an attractive song of it, The bluejay 

 notes that really are pleasing to my ear are those- 

 utfercd by a number of jays having a party after 

 nesting affairs arc over, when they gather in the top 

 branches of a tree and in soft tones tell each other 

 lo "fill the kittle, fill the tea-kittle," and there are 

 limes; when Father Jay perching near hisnest 

 lexiks at his mate with an expression of extreme 

 devotion, and in whispered, throaty utterances 

 says to her something that sounds to me like 



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by Gene Sir atton- Porter 



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