peared astonished at my question and 
after a sickly smile, answered: “How 
can one kill his cwn grandparents?” 
His reply embarrassed me. I should 
have known that Enamo held crocodiles 
sacred, a_ belief common to most 
Orientals of the Tropics. 
kill the crocodile of the pool. He | 
An Experience With a Blue Jay 
Dr. RANDLE C. ROSENBERGER, 
I HAVE never heard anyone speak 
well of the blue jay. It is noisy, 
bull dozing and fights a great deal 
with the red headed woodpecker. It is 
greedy almost to gluttony and many a 
time when bread is placed outside for 
the woodpeckers, the blue jays are the 
first to “sight” it, and make off with 
most of it if the woodpeckers don’t 
chase them. I cannot myself say any- 
thing that I know is good of the jay 
but I want to mention an occurrence 
which took place in the woods during 
the past summer. 
One of my cats caught a mouse and, 
as usual, commenced to play with it 
before eating it. I joined in the fun 
and took the mouse from it, and put 
it away and before the cat again could 
catch it, it had climbed up a good-sized 
oak tree out of her reach and mine, 
and kept going up. When it had 
gotten about 12 feet or so, seemingly 
out of the clear sky and straight as an 
arrow, a blue jay made a jab at the 
mouse and knocked it off the tree upon | 
the ground. The jay alighted upon a 
small maple tree near the oak, and 
awaited a reappearance of the mouse. | 
I stepped back a few feet and anxiously | 
watched what would be the next thing 
to happen. The cat saw the mouse 
drop, but in the high grass and dried | 
leaves soon lost it. The jay stayed 
upon the maple and apparently was 
searching from its perch for the mouse 
_also. The cat gave up the hunt after 
a few minutes, and then the jay 
alighted nearer the ground, and after 
looking very intently for a few min- | 
utes flew off. I do not doubt that if | 
the jay had “speared” the unfortunate 
mouse at once, that it would have 
destroyed it, and from this one instance 
it looked to me that the jay was per- 
fectly familiar with the victim. 
If I had not seen this myself I doubt 
whether I would have believed it, but 
this leads me to the belief that the jay 
does destroy mice and, if it does, it 
serves some good purpose and should 
not be looked upon as a perfectly use- 

less bird. 

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