Identifier: birdsofamericafr04audu (find matches)
Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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der. It robs every nest it can find,sucks the eggs like the Crow, or tears to pieces and devours the young birds.A friend once wounded a Grouse (Tetrao umbellus), and marked the direc-tion which it followed, but had not proceeded two hundred yards in pursuit,when he heard something fluttering in the bushes, and found his birdbelaboured by two Blue Jays, who were picking out its eyes. The sameperson once put a Flying Squirrel into the cage of one of these birds, merelyto preserve it for one night; but on looking into the cage about eleven oclocknext day, he found the animal partly eaten. A Blue Jay at Charlestondestroyed all the birds of an aviary. One after another had been killed, andthe rats were supposed to have been the culprits, but no crevice could beseen large enough to admit one. Then the mice were accused, and war waswaged against them, but still the birds continued to be killed; first thesmaller, then the larger, until at length the Keywest Pigeons; when it was N? 47. PL 231
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