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of blue 
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hi rd on the 
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ihe Tor&ed neatly all day yesterday and mite all of to-day 
i t:.K rain, 7h< aeot locked like a very flimsy affair 
tain even! g* The male occasionally adoompa iled her to the 
n«w% t showing off Ml * : flttting" ’nut ho g- $1 » 
The other t o birds marked through to-day also and their 
i-ir.teo behaved in the same way. 
There was very little singing on the port of any of 
the sales either ye: terday r to-day* HI tin apple-trees 
-nee sprayed with arsenate of lead oa the 19th but none of 
the el :as have been sprayed as yet* Vil the male rtales 
• r* fine singers of the old-faahtonel type. All are new 
to this olaoe, if I any Judge by their voices* 
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\e I was on my way to the Farm from Ball’s Hill, 
o * bay 18th, I sat? a Blue Jay pitting on her nest in a 
small white pi.is within SO feet of the road where it dips 
u'}„:i 1 .to tne hoi ow just this aide of m a* 3 . To-day 
I visited the nest In . rlth • the ’ - -.-ors. Setter* The 
bird was on, sitting Mth her tail pr Jecting over one side 
of the nest and h- y ill pointing upward at an angle of 
o 
45 over the opposite rim, 
t ? e stood directly bemonth her for severe! ml autos, 
talking, without disturbi g her. The ,by standing on tip¬ 
toe, I reached up "act touched her toil ,/ith my fin ors, at 
firot stroking its under side gently, then robbing it hard, 
fi '.ally pushing it up srd sideways it' f,oi e vie 'once. I 
1 ailed in this way to elicit any ark of alarm or even 
notice on the port of the bird; but when one of the Dexters 
