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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Is raised as polite as can be—Heigh-ho! Oh, impudent jay, With your plumage so gay,And your manners so jaunty and free—Heigh-ho! How little you guessed, When you robbed the wrens nest,That any stray fellow would see—Heigh-ho! THIS is an abundant and interest-ing cousin of the bluejay andis found along the Pacific coastfrom northern California north-ward. It is a very common residentofOregon, is noisy, bold, and dashing.The nest of this bird is built in firsand other trees and in bushes, ten totwenty feet from the ground. It isbulky and made of large sticks andtwigs, generally put together withmud, and lined with fine, dry grasses and hair. The eggs are threeto five, pale green or bluish green,speckled with olive-brown, with anaverage size of i;28x.85. There seemsno doubt that many jays have beenobserved robbing nests of other birds,but thousands have been seen thatwere not so engaged. It has beenshown that animal matter comprisesonly about twenty-five per cent, ofthe birds diet.
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315 STELLARS JAY. J 2 Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY3E STUDY PUB. CO., CHICAGO. LINEN FABRICS. \V. E. WATT, A. M. WE HAD just taken that delight-ful ride down the rapids of theSt. Lawrence, and experiencedthe thrill of mingled pleas-ure and fear which everyone has at themoment when the vessel is dashing ata furious rate directly towards a greatrock, and we were sure thatsomeone hadmade a mistake for once, and no powercould save us from being dashed inpieces, when a sudden whirling currentof the stream picked the ship out ofthe way of the rock and carried hersafely through the boiling foam into aplace of comparative safet). As we stood among the seagoingshipping of the port of Montreal wecould easih understand why thereshould be such a great city there. Wetook but little stock in what had beensaid of the great business enterprise ofthe early settlers of that town and howthey built up the place till it became agreat seaport and an important com-mercial center. No doubt they wereable and

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