Class II. JAY. 227 



large black fpots. The forehead is white, ftreak- 

 ed with black : the head is covered with very 

 long feathers, which at pleafure it can ered into 

 the form of a creft : the whole neck, back, bread 

 and belly are of a faint purple dafhed with grey ; 

 the covert featliers of the wings are of the fame 

 color. 



The firft quil feather is black -, the exterior webs 

 of the nine next are afh-colored, the interior webs 

 duflcy : the fix next black ; but the lower fides 

 of their exterior webs are white tinged with blue ; 

 the two next wholly black ; the lalt of a fine bay 

 color tipt with black. 



The lelfer coverts are of a light bay : the great- 

 er covert feathers mod beautifully barred with a 

 lovely blue, black and white : the reft black : the 

 rump is white. The tail confifts of twelve black 

 feathers. The feet are of a pale brown : the claws 

 large and hooked. It lays five or fix eggs, of a 

 dull whitifh olive, mottled very obfcurely with pale 

 brown. The neft is made entirely of the fine fi- 

 bres of roots of trees ; but has for a foundation 

 fome coarfe fti'cks : it is generally placed on the 

 top of the underwood, fuch as hazels, thorns, or 

 low birch. The young follow their parents till 

 the fpring : in the fummer they are very injurious 

 to gardens, being great devourers bf peafe and cher- 

 ries ; in the autumn and winter they feed on acorns, 

 irom whence the Latin nari^e. Dr. Kramer* 



* Kr^m, dench, 335. 



obferves. 



