BLUE JAY. — Cy ano corax cristatus. 
The Blue Jay, so called from its colour, is an American bird. 
The Blue Jay attacks owls whenever it meets with them, and never can see a 
hawk without giving the alarm, and rushing to the attack, backed up by other 
Jays, who never fail to offer their assistance to their comrade. Often they will 
assemble in some numbers, and buffet the unfortunate hawk with such relentless 
perseverance that they fairly drive him out of the neighbourhood ; but sometimes 
the tables are reversed, and the hawk, turning suddenly on his persecutors, snaps 
up the foremost and boldest, and silently sails away into the thickest covert, 
bearing his screaming prey in his talons. 
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