Cyanocitta cristata 
; Concord, Mass, 
1898, also) and this, Miss Keyes tells me, has been the case 
Dec. 8-10, ever since she first attracted them to the house three or four 
(No.2), years ago. I watched them for an hour or more both mornings 
and only once saw one of them attach the suet but he helped 
himself liberally. 
Cacheing bread. 
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On each morning four Jays came soon after sunrise and 
remained an hour or more. During this time on each occasion 
they made away with nearly half a loaf. of bread . This had 
been broken up rather finely and thrown out on the snow under 
the window. The Jays ate a little of it but carried off the 
rest filling their throats and bills just as the Canada Jays 
do and taking their loads into a neighboring orchard (about 
30 yards from the house) where they buried most of them in 
the ground depositing a small part, however, behind the scales 
of loose bark or in small holes or crevices of the old apple 
, and pear trees. The fragments hidden in the ground were scat- 
tered about over spaces where the wind had drifted away the 
snow. Some were merely thrust carelessly under fallen leaves 
or tufts of grass, others were driven into the ground by re- 
peated strokes of the birds* bills; the pieces placed in trees 
were almost invariably tamped firmly down before they were 
left . 
The Jays were very tame and our presence at the windows 
