FAMILY COHVIIXE. JAYS, CROWS, ETC. 



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Group 3. Wing, 5.50 to 6.50 inches long. 



Upper parts, pale blue, or purplish blue ; tail, bright blue, barred with black, and 

 (except middle feathers) tipped with white; wings, blue, marked with white; 

 uuderparts, ashy white; breast, with black baud. Blue Jay. 



Cyanocitta cristata. 

 See No. 360. 



Forehead, throat, and sides of head, dull white; back of crown and nape, black- 

 ish ; back, gray ; uuderparts, ashy, palest ou the throat. 



Canada Jay. 



Perisoreus canadensis, and races. 

 See No. 363. 



Group 4. Wing, 6.50 to 8.50 inches long. 



Head aud breast, black ; tail, long, showing more or less greeu aud purple reflec- 

 tious. American flagpie. 



Pica pica hudsonica. 

 See No. 359. 



SUBFAMILY CORVIINME. 



Crows and Ravens. 

 Group 5. Wing, 9.50 to 15 inches long. 



Plumage, black; wiiig, over 

 11.50; tarsus, over 2.10; 

 bill, over 1.80. 



Crow. 



Corvus anicricamis, and races. 

 See No. 366. 



