. Bird portraits . r powerful bills into a nut and wrench it out of theburr, then fly off with it to a convenient limb and hammer it Jays spend the entire winter in the northern woods, subsistingon nuts, but the large numbers observed in the fall are evidence thatmany others are moving southward, where food is more plenty. Jays and squirrels are curiously associated; both live in theautumn and winter, innocently enough, on nuts and acorns; both, inspring, poach on the eggs and young of birds. One becomes fondof each of these rascals in spite of his undoubted villanies, and isglad tha
. Bird portraits . r powerful bills into a nut and wrench it out of theburr, then fly off with it to a convenient limb and hammer it Jays spend the entire winter in the northern woods, subsistingon nuts, but the large numbers observed in the fall are evidence thatmany others are moving southward, where food is more plenty. Jays and squirrels are curiously associated; both live in theautumn and winter, innocently enough, on nuts and acorns; both, inspring, poach on the eggs and young of birds. One becomes fondof each of these rascals in spite of his undoubted villanies, and isglad that though neither Squirrel nor Jay is protected by law, andin some states both are constantly persecuted, neither seems to bediminishing in numbers. In Europe, the Crow and the Jay have several relatives, manyof whom, such as the Magpie, Rook, and Jackdaw, share the familycharacteristics. They are all thieves, clowns, and impudent fellows,and yet win, if not affection, yet a certain degree of
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