Curious Nesting Place. I found a Blue 
Jay’s nest this Spring among' the roots of 
a large tree that had been prostrated by 
the wind, turning up a large mass of roots 
with the adhering soil. Near the top of 
this mass, some eig'ht feet high, under the 
border of the turf, which had curved over 
making a screen for the nest, which with its 
five eggs was hid from view. — J. N. Clark. 
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“Curious Nesting Places.” — My atten- 
tion was recently called to a Blue .Jay’s 
. nest which is built in the lattice work to 
the front veranda of Mrs. E. Wheeler’s 
residence, Poquetannoc, Conn. The nest 
is built in the usual manner, within six 
feet of the front door, and at the time of 
my visit, June 10th, contained two young 
birds. The front door was open and small 
children were at play in and out of the 
house, and on the veranda. Yet during 
my stay the old birds came several times 
to feed and nestle the young without show- 
ing much fear. This is such an unusual 
place for a Blue Jay to build it seems to 
be worthy of record. — G. R. C., Norwich. 
O.&O. VII. A«g- 188 2 . p. M ? 
/ At last it was over, and the sun once more 
shed its welcome beams abroad with as warm 
a smile as if lie had not for a whole week 
given place to the raging tempest. As I re- 
newed my walks over the hills, file orchards 
and fields, I visited the old robin’s nest which 
had two eggs before the storm began, but it 
was empty; the little sparrow who had one 
egg, 1 found sitting on three; the old blue jay, 
who had four eggs before the storm broke, I 
found sitting on two; did she, driven to des- 
peration by the pangs of hunger, devour her 
own offspring? I believe it is the fact. There 
was a little Yellow- throated Vireo, which 1 
had watched with much interest, as day after 
day during that last pleasant week she had 
diligently labored, bringing lichens and fibres 
and webs, to suspend her beautiful cradle from 
some forked twigs, now were to be found only a 
few weather-beaten shreds waving from them 
to mark the scene of so much skill and labor 
wasted. Where was the artisan? I could no 
more hear her note or the cheering warble of 
her mate as on the week before he had poured 
it forth in soul-stirring song. 1 saw them no 
more. I also found the relics of many another 
little nest without tenant or claimant. . 
UovGk. ( ‘6U-W, . . _ . In . . 
Mar, 1889. », 3 (> . 
A Few Nests Collected at Cornwall, V t. 
Spring-1889. C. H. Parkhill. 
Blue Jay ( Cyanocitta cristata). Collected 
May 11th. Nest in a small elm tree seven 
feet from the ground, and contained five eggs 
slightly incubated. 
O.&O, XIV. Oct. 1839 p 150 
ec- (£Ltsf <r^- 
the Blu e Jay , containing eggs of the Cowbird— 
in my store. F. B. W.] 
O.&O. XV. Feb, IROrt 
