. Camera studies of wild birds in their homes . Fig. 75. Young Jays in yest. 87 may serve to interest and give an insight into the true natureof all jays. Who first gave this bird a name and why it was given^ no-body knows, but almost from the first day it was known asKitty. Part of a room was screened off, including a largewindow, for the exclusive use of Kitty, and several smalltrees and a little pine were introduced so as to allow forexercise. The first two weeks, Kitty had to be fed veryoften; when anyone was in the room, she would hop aboutafter them with wide-open mouth and fluttering wi
. Camera studies of wild birds in their homes . Fig. 75. Young Jays in yest. 87 may serve to interest and give an insight into the true natureof all jays. Who first gave this bird a name and why it was given^ no-body knows, but almost from the first day it was known asKitty. Part of a room was screened off, including a largewindow, for the exclusive use of Kitty, and several smalltrees and a little pine were introduced so as to allow forexercise. The first two weeks, Kitty had to be fed veryoften; when anyone was in the room, she would hop aboutafter them with wide-open mouth and fluttering wings, al-ways begging for more. Bread and milk, eggs and bits of. Fig. 76. The Jays become too large for their home and arecrowded out on the neighboring branches. raw meat seemed perfectly satisfactory to her if they camein large enough doses and at frequent intervals. It wasabout three weeks before Kitty could fly strongly and thenher mischievousness began to assert itself at every oppor-tunity. Kitty seldom made typical jay calls or whistles but she 88 had a very great many notes of her own and would some-tmies whistle and warble continuously for an hour at a time^at times striking combinations of notes that sounded verypretty. Wild jays^ especially in Springs often talk amongthemselves with low whistles, with an effect very similar toKittys song. She never used the loud, harsh, jay screamunless angered or greatly excited; if a dog came into theroom, she was a typical, wild jay and would raise her crestand scream at the top of her voice. She had two whistles
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