I have never heard the Gray Jay titter more than a soft cooing _whee ew_ repeated at random; but Bendire credits it with a near approach to song[8]; and Mrs. Bailey says of the Jays on Mt. Hood[9]: “Their notes were pleasantly varied. One call was remarkably like the chirp of a robin. Another of the commonest was a weak and rather complaining cry repeated several times. A sharply contrasting one was a pure clear whistle of one note followed by a three-syllabled call something like _Ka-wé-ah_. The regular rallying cry was still different, a loud and striking two-syllabled _ka-whee_.” The eggs of the Gray Jay have not yet been reported from this State, but it is known that the bird builds a very substantial nest of twigs, grasses, plant fibre, and mosses without mud, and that it provides a heavy lining of soft gray mosses for the eggs. The nest is usually well concealed in a fir tree, and may be placed at any height from ten or fifteen feet upward, altho usually at sixty or eighty feet. Only one brood is reared in a season, and family groups hunt together until late in the summer. _Icteridæ_—The Troupials No. 15. COWBIRD. A. O. U. No. 495. Molothrus ater (Bodd.). Synonyms.—Cow Blackbird. Cuckold. Description.—_Adult male_: Head and neck wood-, seal-, or coffee-brown (variable); remaining plumage black with metallic greenish or bluish iridescence. _Female_: Dark grayish brown, showing slight greenish reflections, darkest on wings and tail, lightening on breast and throat. _Young in first plumage_: Like female but lighter below and more or less streaky; above somewhat mottled by buffy edgings of feathers. The young males present a striking appearance when they are assuming the adult black, on the installment plan, by chunks and blotches. Length 7.50-8.00 (190.5-203.2); wing 4.40 (111.8); tail 3.00-3.40 (76.2-86.4); bill .65 (16.5); tarsus .95-1.10 (24.1-27.9). Female, length, wing, and tail one-half inch less. Recognition Marks.—Chewink size; brown head and black body of male; brown of female. Nesting.—The Cowbird invariably deposits her eggs in the nests of other birds. _Eggs_: 1 or 2, rarely 3 or 4, with a single hostess, white, often faintly tinged with bluish or greenish, evenly speckled with cinnamon, brown or umber. Av. size, .85 × .65 (21.6 × 16.5), but quite variable. _Season_: April-June. General Range.—United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific, north into southern British America, south in winter, into Mexico. Range in Washington.—Of limited but regular occurrence east of the Cascades, increasing; rare or casual in western Washington. Summer resident. Authorities.—Bendire, Life Histories of N. A. Birds, Vol. II., p. 434. D¹. D². Ss². J. B. E. Specimens.—C. P.