Cambridge, Mass.
1915
March 28
(No 2)

Song of Blue Jay

almost daily, oftenest between eleven and twelve
o'clock in the forenoon when the sun was shining brightly.
He utters an infinite variety of notes unlike the usual
calls and so low-pitched that I doubt if any of them
could be heard more than fifty yards away yet one
and all come to my ears with perfect distinctiveness
through the closed window when the bird is in the
rhododendron thicket near it. Some are scarce more
than whispers; others subdued chatters and whinings, 
intermingling with guttural or squeaky sounds; still others
brief musical chantings; others again delightfully liquid
in quality. Taken altogether the medley is not
unlike that of a Catbird singing sotto voce but
less replete with mimicry although sometimes including
notes obviously borrowed from other birds among which
I heard the cheep of the Juncos and the wicker of