. Birds of Michigan. Birds. ZOOLOCilCAL DEPARTMENT. 85 preceding overlap each other in this region during winter, and so are very generally con- fused throughout the state. The species and sub-species are thought generally to be one and the same bird. Family CORVID^^^]. Crows, Magpies etc. Pood habits rather omnivorous. Subfamily GARRULINiE. Magpies amd Jays. Genus CYANOCITTA Stbickl. 20()-477-(84i)). t'yauocitta eristata (Linn.). * Blue Jay. Very abundant; throughout the state; common in all seasons; reported from Presque Isle and Bois Blanc Island; "common at Grand Traverse County"
. Birds of Michigan. Birds. ZOOLOCilCAL DEPARTMENT. 85 preceding overlap each other in this region during winter, and so are very generally con- fused throughout the state. The species and sub-species are thought generally to be one and the same bird. Family CORVID^^^]. Crows, Magpies etc. Pood habits rather omnivorous. Subfamily GARRULINiE. Magpies amd Jays. Genus CYANOCITTA Stbickl. 20()-477-(84i)). t'yauocitta eristata (Linn.). * Blue Jay. Very abundant; throughout the state; common in all seasons; reported from Presque Isle and Bois Blanc Island; "common at Grand Traverse County" (M. L. Leach); " abundant at Mackinac Island" (S. E. White): "not common on Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); "common in Upper Peninsula" (); "common at Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); breeds; nests in thick foliage, especially evergreens, very rarely in barns, one case noted; eggs fovir to five, "six" (E. Clute and ), light green or drab, spotted with light brown; feeds on acorns, hazel nuts, insects, fruits, young birds and birds eggs etc.; often kills birds, especially nestlings; Dr. G. W. Topping, of DeWitt, has repeatedly seen these birds lake young Sparrows and Gold Finches from the nests and then eat them; "killed a young Baltimore Oriole and took its brain, leaving the rest of the carcass" (L. W. Watkins); an English Sparrow received similar treatment from this bird, on the college campus in the spring of 1893; a rather doubtful friend; note harsh; too handeome to kill. Prof. J. A. Allen informs me that he has taken a great number of the eggs of the tent caterpillar, Clisiocampa americuna, from their stomachs in winter in Massachusetts. Genus PICA Cuv. li01-47o-(.*M7). Pica pica hudsoiiiea (Sab.). American Magpie. Said to wander to Michigan (see Youth's Companion, December, 1892); "I have seen a few specimens taken at Eagle River" (Kneeland); Butler's Birds of Indiana, p, 113; Ridgway's
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