Longevity 
From General Notes, Bird-Bandin, Vol. YI, January 1935, P. 35: 
A Twelve-Year-Old Blue Jay Recatured.--On the lth of November, 1933, a Blue
Jay 
(Cyanocitta c. cristata) bearing band number 9612, was taken in a flat trap.

This bird had been banded on January 2, 1922, by Mr. Aldred S. Warthin. Jr.,

at a station located about three hundred yards from the site of recapture.
While 
the nmbers were entirely legible, the band had worn thin and was therefore

replaced by C333993. The bird has not been retaken since. 
tis indicates that Blue Jay 9612 was at least twelve and a half years old

when it was retaken, more than two years older than the Wren-tit recently
reported 
by Z. L. Suner' Sr., (Condor, 36, 1934, p. 170) as the oldest recorded wild

passerine bird.-Thomas H. Weller, Ann Arbor, Michigan.