NESTLINGS OF FOREST AND MARSH 
mother jay will usually leave without pro- 
test if there are only eggs in the nest, and if 
there are young she 
contents herself with 
squawking in close imi- 
tation of a catbird’s 
meouw.” 
And what 
homely babies 
are those newly 
hatched jays ! 
Of a sickly 
greenish color, 
their skin 
seems tough, 
like leather. It 
is impossible to 
describe them 
Nests devastated by jays. Upper, red-eyed vireo, m Sufficiently 
Lower, indigo bunting 
repellent terms. 
They look as if they had been dead for days 
and were mummified. Have the parent jays 
no sense of beauty, 1 wonder, that they regard 
these ugly nestlings with such tender pride ? 
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