Cvanocitta cristata 
Concord, Mass. Mimics a Cooper's Hawk. 
A . M . 
1390. Early this A I heard a Blue Jay screaming near at hand. 
April 27. Presently I hoard the harking note of a Cooper's Hawk in a 
thicket of young pines into which the Jay had just flown. I 
ara morally certain that the Jay uttered this cry but I failed 
to get another sight at him when I entered the pines. Prob- 
ably the barking which I heard yesterday at the Glacial Hollow 
was also made by a Jay. Why does the Jay mimic all our Hawks 
and no dther birds? 
May 18. Blue Jays were remarkably scarce about concord through 
March, April and the early part of May and Purdie told me on 
May 1st that he had noted their absence elsewhere near Boston. 
But during the past week they have appeared here in their 
usual numbers and to-day we saw them almost everywhere - at 
least eight or ten birds in all. 
,v 
Peterborough, New Hampshire. 
1398. Either uncommon or remarkably silent and retiring through 
July 5 July but seen and heard frequently in August. (W. Beane reports 
to 
Aug. 15. them abundant and very noisy in July at Jaffrey). 
I Concord, Mass. Prefer frread to suet. 
1898 , Miss Keyes is feeding the birds this winter as usual and 
Dec. 8-10. she had a fine lot of them to show me. The Jays, strange 
' 
to say, rarely touched anything but the bread (there was suet 
