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Its tameness and thieving qualities are noted by Cartwright. He 
makes frequent complaint of its robbing his traps of bait and occa¬ 
sionally he catches one in a trap. On November 5, 1770, he caught 
two with bird lime. On November 7, 1770, he notes: “The two jays 
which I caught on the fifth instant, I have hitherto kept confined in 
a cage; but they now have the liberty of the room; and I was greatly 
surprised to see them fly to me for food, and familiarly perch upon 
my hand; they even suffered me to stroke them with one hand, 
while they were eating some pork fat out of the other.” 
In another place (vol. 2, p. 151) on March 12, 1776, he speaks of 
the jay “ which chants its short coarse tune every mild day through 
the whole winter.” And he says this is the only song he had heard 
that winter until the day when the “cross-beaked linnets” sang. It 
is probable that the song of the Labrador Jay is very similar to that 
of the Canada Jay which is thus described by O. B. Warren (Auk, 
vol. 16, 1899, p. 14): “On pleasant days the male trilled from a 
spruce top a song of sweetly modulated notes wholly new to my ears. 
He always sang in sotto voce, and it required an acquaintance with 
the songster to realize that he, though so near, was the origin of those 
notes which seemed to come from somewhere up in the towering 
pines which surrounded this strip of swamp, so lost was the melody 
in the whispering, murmuring voices of the pines.” 
Seebohm (“Birds of Siberia,” 1901, p. 33) speaking of the Siberian 
Jay (Perisoreus infaustus ) says: “Their song was by no means 
unmusical, a low warble like that of the starling, but not so harsh.” 
Spreadborough found the Labrador Jay throughout Ungava to 
Ungava Bay. Turner says it is a resident and breeds at Fort Chimo; 
Weiz says it breeds at Okkak; Low found it very common throughout 
the interior and he records a nest with four eggs at Rigolet, March 24, 
1894, and one with three eggs from the Northwest River about the 
same date. The young were able to fly from the nest at Grand Falls 
on May 18th. Audubon says he found the young following their 
parents on June 27, 1833, in southern Labrador. 
Frazar noted in the second week of September an “immense migra¬ 
tion” of jays. Flocks of a dozen to fifty were constantly passing. 
The direction of flight is not stated but it was apparently to the south. 
Bendire ('95, p. 392-393) gives an interesting account of this bird 
copied from the manuscript notes of L. M. Turner from which we 
extract the following: 
