. Bird notes . s at home in the fullest sense of theword. Mr. Finn seems able to see what so few orni-thologists appear to see, viz., what a bird is ihinkifigabout, with the consequence that his writings ingeneral, and this little book in particular, have apiquant interest that will commend itself to all wholove the living birds, either in captivity or in a stateof nature. It may not be generally known that Mr. Finn isan amateur artist of no small ability, and those of thedrawings in his book which were not drawn directfrom life by Mr. Goodchild, were done from sketchesprovided by the author.
. Bird notes . s at home in the fullest sense of theword. Mr. Finn seems able to see what so few orni-thologists appear to see, viz., what a bird is ihinkifigabout, with the consequence that his writings ingeneral, and this little book in particular, have apiquant interest that will commend itself to all wholove the living birds, either in captivity or in a stateof nature. It may not be generally known that Mr. Finn isan amateur artist of no small ability, and those of thedrawings in his book which were not drawn directfrom life by Mr. Goodchild, were done from sketchesprovided by the author. By the kindness of the author and the publisherswe are able to give our readers one of the twenty-fourchapters intact, with its illustration (which appears onthe cover, but unfortunately lias not the name put toit) and this will give them a clear idea of the scopeand style of the work. We are also enabled to givethe illustration of the Golden-backed Woodpecker. Copies may be obtained direct from the THE BLUE JAY OR ROLLER. 44 THE lovely bird, with azure wings.—Byron. One can hardly go on with the above quotation and creditthe subject of the present article with a song that said athousand things, for the Blue-Jays vocalizations are limitedto a degree. Ordinarih-, as has been neatly remarked, heencourages himself in patience by uttering a sound like tschok at intervals, and more rarely he points his bill toheaven and his tail to earth and utters a cackling laugh, infeeble imitation of the great Australian Kingfisher, commonlyknown as the Laughing Jackass [Dacelo gigas). As a matter otfact, our present friend is more kingfisher than jay, this povertyof vocabular} being one of the points in which the relationshipcomes out; real jays having a remarkable flexibility of voice,though their ordinary remarks are not much more musicalthan those of the Roller familj, to which the Indian Blue-Jayreally belongs. Rollers also agree with kingfishers, and differfrom ja
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