. Les oiseaux dans leurs haunts, par le regretté C. A. Johns . les imals sont jugés être le jeu destructiveto, Et sont donc chassés à la mort, le Jay, peut-être, avec moins de raison que le reste, car bien qu'il ne puisse pas résister à peine à l'emptation du pillage, soit d'oeufs ou de jeunes, n'importe quel nid, whetherof Partridge ou Pheasant, qui tombe dans son chemin, pourtant il ne se soumette pas entièrement à la nourriture animale, mais aussi sur les acornes et les autres fruits sauvages. Ses plumes bleues sont beaucoup utilisées dans la manu-facture des mouches artificielles. Néanmoins, en raison de leurs habitudes circonspects et circonspects, il y a peu de quartiers boisés dans

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. Birds in their haunts, by the late C. A. Johns . imals are judged to be destructiveto game, and are accordingly hunted to the death, the Jay, perhaps, with less reason than the rest, for though it can hardly resist thetemptation of plundering, either of eggs or young, any nest, whetherof Partridge or Pheasant, that falls in its way, yet it does not sub-sist entirely upon animal food, but also upon acorns and variousother wild fruits. Its blue feathers are much used in the manu-facture of artificial flies. Nevertheless, owing to their cautiousand wary habits, there are few wooded districts in which they arenot more or less numerous. Their jarring unconnected note, which characterizes them at aU seasons, is in spring and summervaried by their song proper, in which I have never been able todetect anything more melodious than an accurate imitation of thenoise made by sawyers at work, though Montagu states that itwill, sometimes, in the spring utter a sort of song in a soft andpleasing manner, but so low as not to be heard at any distance;. Great Grey Shrike c?Red Backed Shrike <? ■Woodchat Shrike 3Nutcracker 3 Ip. 58. THE MAGPIE J9 and at intervals introduces the bleating of a lamb, mewing of acat, the note of a Kite or Buzzard, hooting of an Owl, or even neigh-ing of a horse. These imitations are so exact, even in a naturalwUd state, that we have frequently been deceived. The Jaygenerally builds its nest in a wood, either in the top of a low tree, or against the trunk of a lofty one, employing as material smallsticks, roots, and dry grass, and lays five eggs. There seems tobe a difference of opinion as to the sociability of the famUy partyafter the young are fledged, some writers stating that they separatebj mutual consent, and that each shifts for itself ; others, that theyoung brood remains with the old birds all the winter. For my ownpart, I scarcely recollect ever having seen a solitary Jay, or to haveheard a note which was not immediately responded to by anoth

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