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Cyanocitta eristata. 
1869. 
July & A\4g, Blue Jay, very common near the Glen House, N.H, 
frequenting the lonely forests where they were Very tame, 
often permitting an approach within a few yards. 
1870. 
July 29- 
Aug. 13. Numerous in the forests abo^t the Profile House, N.H. 
Sept,2-9^ Very abundant at the Forks of the Kennebec ,Maine, 
frequenting seeond-grov/’th-birches and the borders of 
clearings. Here for the first time I saw them unmista¬ 
kably migrating, passing southward higli in air in flocks 
of fifty or more. 
1876. • 
Doc, 6, 
Abundant everyvrhero in those woods (“arston’s Mills, 
Mass. ). 
1882. 
June 20. Nest 7/ith throe eggs. In fork of red maple. The 
female started off only -when I shook the tree; she 
screamed continuously while I was taking the eggs (Milton, 
Mass,). 
July 27, In the mountains beyong Norv/’a^-, Maine, some Blue 
Jays in a thicket by the roadside v/ore imitating the cry 
of l.ut.e.o ^en nsTlvanicus , and so perfectly that I vms en¬ 
tirely deceived. 
