Cyanocitta orlstata 
Concord, Mass. Imitating a Canada Jay. 
1897. As I was standing near the cabin this noon I heard the 
Oct. 29. ordinary whistling call of the Canada Jay given five or six 
times near at hand in the maples by the canoe landing. Of 
course I was greatly excited feeling sure that at last I was 
to see a Per isoreus in my Concord woods. But when, a moment 
later, the bird hopped out into clear view on a leafless 
branch it proved to be a Blue Jay . It gave the call two or 
three times more while I was looking at it and then flew 
across the river. Evidently it must have been a migrant from 
some northern region where Blue Jays abound. Only once before 
have I heard the Blue Jay mimic this cry - at Pine Point, Lake 
Umbagog two or three years ago. The imitation given to-day 
was simply perfect. 
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