230 OMNIVOROUS BIRDS. 



COLUMBIA JAY. 



(Garrulus Bullockii, Wagler. Audubon, pi. 96. Garrula gubcrna- 

 trix, Temminck.) 



Sp. Charact. — Bright blue ; with a lofty crest of separate plumes ; 

 capistrum, throat, and breast black ; belly whitish 5 tail-feathers 

 largely tipt with white, except the 4 upper, which are longer, the 

 2 central ones curved, and nearly twice the length of the lat- 

 erals. 



Of this large and magnificent species, scarcely any 

 thing is, as yet, known, but the splendid figure in Audu- 

 bon's unparalleled work. It is not uncommon in Mexico 

 and California, and the individual figured by Audubon 

 was obtained on the banks of the Columbia river. The 

 size appears to be equal to that of a Raven, and the bright 

 blue, graduated, fan-like tail, with 2 of the central 

 feathers extended far beyond the rest, appears more like 

 the train of some tropical Parrot, than a near relation to 

 the common Crow. 



Length 31 inches. The crest formed of long and distinct feathers ; 

 region round the eyes, throat, and upper part of the breast, black. 

 3d and 4th primaries longest ; the 1st very short. Bill and legs 

 brownish black. Inner webs of the quills dusky, and no stripes on 

 any part. 



FLORIDA JAY. 



(Corvus Jloridanus, Bartram. Audubon, pi. 87. Orn. Biog. i. p. 444. 

 Garrulus floridanus, Bonap. Am. Orn. ii. p. 59. pi. 14. fig. 1. 

 Philad. Museum, No. 1378, 1379.) 



Sp. Charact. — Not crested; bright azure-blue ; the back brownish ; 

 beneath whitish-grey ; tail wedge-shaped. 



This elegant species is, as far as yet known, almost 

 wholly confined to the interior of the mild peninsula of 



