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Mayhew
1947
Stellar's Jay
June 7 Strawberry Canyon, U.C. campus, Alameda Co., Calif.
at 8:35 A.M. one lit in the tree directly overhead. It uttered a series of harsh notes as it moved about in the tree.
Then it uttered several notes that I couldn't have told from a Red-tailed Hawk. Over a period of 15 minutes, it gave forth were a great variety of notes that I couldn't begin to describe.