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Title: The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U.S.) Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927. illus Kennard, Frederic Hedge, 1865- Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916 Shiras, George, 1859-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Washington, D. C., National Geographic Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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status: The blue jay isof a dual nature. Cautious and silent in the\icinity of its nest, away from it it is bold andnoisy. Sly in the commission of mischief, it isever ready to scream thief at the slightestdisturbance. As usual in such cases, its re-marks are applicable ti:i none more than itself,a fact neighboring nest holders know to theirsorrow, for during the breeding season the jaylays hea\y toll upon the eggs and young ofother birds, and in doing so deprives us of theservices of species more beneficial than itself.Approximately three-fourths of the annualfood of the blue jay is vegetable matter, thegreater ji.art of which is composed of mast—that is, acorns, chestnuts, beechnuts, and thelike. Corn is the principal cultivated crop uponwhich this bird feeds, but stomach analysis in-dicates that most of the corn taken is wastegrain. Such noxious insects as wood-boringbeetles, grasshoppers, eggs of various caterpil-lars, and scale insects constitute about one-fifth of its food. 24
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Brewers BlackbirdCalifornia Jay Bullocks OrioleBlue Jay 25 VARIED THRUSH (Ixoreus njsvius) Length, alidut id iiiclies. Its large size anddark slate-eolored upper parts, black breast col-lar, orange brown stripe over eye, and orangebrown under parts mark this thrush apart fromall others. Range: Breeds on the Pacific coast fromVakutat Bay, Alaska, south to HumboldtCounty, California; winters from southernAlaska to northern California. This, i)ne of our largest and finest thrushes,is limited to the west coast, wdiere it finds acongenial summer home in the depths of theconiferous forests, the mystery and lonelinessof which seem reflected in its nature. Althoughthe varied thrush somewhat suggests our robin,it is much shyer, and its habits and notes arever\- different, makin.g it more nearly akin tothe small olive thrushes. It nests in the coni-fers, and its eggs, unlike those of the robin,are heavily blotched with brown. Its song, asingle long-drawn note, has been greatlypraised and seems

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