Cvanocitta cristata . 
Concord, 
1892 . 
Sept . 25 . 
Mass . 
It was a great da y for Blue Jays. I am not sure that I 
ever saw more within the same time and distance. They were 
flying about everwhere in the fields, swamps and in every 
hind of woodland. I am forced to withdraw what I recorded, a 
short time since, in disparagement of the Jay's imitation of 
the Red-shouldered, Hawk. It is. usually shorter than the 
Hawk's outcry. but several times to-day a Jay very near me de- 
ceived me perfectly. Once the screams, repeated a dozen or 
mord times, came from the top of a white oak where several 
Jays were flitting about. Although I saw them I was not 
really satisfied that there was not also a Butoo. there until 
I went to the tree and drove the Jays out. They were imita- 
ting this Hawk scream very generally to-day but I heard one 
bona fide Butefo , also. 
