(2) Perisoreus canadensis. I889. Maine. L. Umbagog. We spent the greater part of one day in following them in order to ascertain what they did with the great quantity of food which they carried off. We supposed that we should find them hoarding it somewhere in a hollow tree or similar place; but this proved not to be the case. On the contrary, they took it various distances and to various places, rarely or never, so far as we could ascertain, depositing two loads in the same place. They would place a mouthful of oat meal perhaps on the horizontal branch of a large hemlock, three or four crumbs of bread on the crotch of a dead stub, a large piece of bread on the imbricated twigs of living fir. On one occasion we saw one deposit four beans carefully on the top of an old squirrel's nest high up in an arbor vitae tree. My men climbed to a number of places where the birds were seen leaving their load in order to make sure that they really did this. Sometimes they went only two or three hundred yards back into the woods behind the camp; at others we followed them for upwards of a mile. They were very sly about making their deposits, and, if they saw us watching , would either drop their loads or fly on until out of sight. They had, how- ever, two regular roads which they followed, and their depos- its were made along the line of one or the other of these. On these roads they had regular resting-places in which they alighted for an instant before pushing on. These resting- places were ordinarily about one hundred yards apart, While at work they were very sly as a rule, rarely uttering more than a low, scolding note, but if displeased or disappointed, as, for instance, when the food was covered by a blanket, they would fly up into the trees above the camp and scream in shrill and apparently angry tones for several seconds at a time. After these Jays had been working steadily for about a week, a third appeared. He was evidently a stranger and was regarded with dislike and suspicion by the other two who ne- glected no opportunity to bully him to the utmost. As a rule, he submitted to this treatment very mildly, waiting until the other birds were gone, and then taking his turn. Rather curiously he followed the same route however as the others, and apparently deposited his loads in very much the same places.