. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 220 BIRDS OF AMERICA coverts usually with narrow bars of black; secondaries, deep cobalt or dull ultramarine-blue; tail, dull cobalt- blue, with terminal portion usually distinctly barred with black ; iris, brown. Nest and Eggs.— Nest : Usually located in firs, sometimes in other trees and bushes from lo to 50 feet up; constructed of large sticks, moss, grass, cemented with mud and lined with fine dried grasses and hair — a bulky, substantial structure. Eggs : 3 to 5, pale bluish-green, spotted and blotched all over with olive- brown and lavender. D
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 220 BIRDS OF AMERICA coverts usually with narrow bars of black; secondaries, deep cobalt or dull ultramarine-blue; tail, dull cobalt- blue, with terminal portion usually distinctly barred with black ; iris, brown. Nest and Eggs.— Nest : Usually located in firs, sometimes in other trees and bushes from lo to 50 feet up; constructed of large sticks, moss, grass, cemented with mud and lined with fine dried grasses and hair — a bulky, substantial structure. Eggs : 3 to 5, pale bluish-green, spotted and blotched all over with olive- brown and lavender. Distribution.—Coniferous forests of northern Pacific Coast district, from shores of Puget Sound northward to eastern shores of Cook Inlet, including Vancouver Island and other coast islands, Prince of Wales Island and the Queen Charlotte group. This is another handsome member of a hand- some family, but, alas, like his conspicuous and noisy eastern cousin, the Blue Jay, his habits and manners serve to warn us again that " handsome is as handsome ; For his fine clothes cannot. Drawing by R. Bruce Horsfal! STELLER'S JAY (5 nat. size) conceal from those who know him the fact that he is a nest-robber and a cannibal as well. Chack-ah, Mrs. Florence Merriam Bailey says he squalls, as he flirts his tail and dashes about throtigh the woods; and, ctiriously enough, like the Blue Jay, he has a sort of whistled scream which is singularly like that of the Red-shouldered Hawk. Whether, in either case, this is more than a coincidence, it is impossible to determine, though many who know how Jays act will assert their beHef that the imitation is deliberate, and is intended to frighten the other birds. The fine crest of the Steller's Jay is not always visible when the bird is flying; but, as a keen- eyed youthful friend of Mrs. Bailey remarked, " when they holler they stick that right straight up," a description which Ruskin himself couldn't have improved u
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