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Title: Birds of the world for young people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 Hardcastle, Ella
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, F.A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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birdsare fairly good eating, and many of them are shot forthe table. The Jays are found in both the Old World and theNew, usually in wooded districts. All have harsh, dis-cordant voices, but wonderful ability to mimic otherbirds. Many of them are very beautifully coloured.They have long tails, and short rounded wings. Acharacter that distinguishes the Jays is their pecu-liarly light, bounding hop. The European Jay is a prettily coloured birdinhabiting many parts of Europe, and is especiallyabundant in Great Britain, in spite of ruthless perse-cution at the hands of game-keepers, who grosslyexaggerate the harm it does. It feeds largely onacorns and other forest seeds. See Plate 20, Fig. 119. The American Blue Jay is very striking in colour,being beautifully marked in various shades of blue,with a mixture of black and white. Like its Europeanrelative, it has a feathered crest, which it constantly 20. 115. European Magpie CPica pica). 118. European Nutcracker (Nudfi-iuja caryoCdtacUi-i).
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in. Rook (Corvus frxujikgus). NUTCRACKER 231 raises and depresses. The Blue Jay is extremelynoisy, keeping up a continual chattering and callingin its harsh and penetrating voice, and mimickingother birds apparently for its own amusement. Itappears to take especial delight in frightening smallerbirds by imitating the cry of the Sparrow-Hawk. The Canada Jay is a slightly smaller form than itsblue relative, and is ashy grey in colour, with blackand white markings. It is found in the northern partof this continent, coming southward in winter as far asNew England. The Jackdaw and the Magpie are two corranonEuropean birds of the Crow family, which share thecharacteristics of the tribe in general. Magpies havevery long tails, and in form are more graceful than thetree Crows. Both species are easily tamed and taughtto imitate the human voice to some extent. They arevery cunning, and are particularly addicted to steal-ing small bright objects and carrying them to theirnests, or hiding them in

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