228 RED LEGGED. Class II. 



obferves, that they will kill fmall birds. Jays are 

 very docil, and may be taught to imitate the hu- 

 man voice : their native note is very loud and dif- 

 agreeable. When they are enticing their fledged 

 young to follow them, they emit a noife like the 

 mewing of a cat. 



80. Red 

 Legged. 



Scurapola. Behn.'ohf. 12. 

 La Chouette ou Chouca rouge. 



Be Ion a=v. 286. 

 Pyrrhocorax gracculus faxatilis 



(Stein-tahen, Stein-frae). 



Gefner anj. 522, 527. 

 Spelvier, Taccola. Aldr. anj, 



L 386. 

 Wtl. orn. 126. 

 Rail Jyn. av. 40. 

 Le Crave. Hifl. d'Oys. 



IIL I. 



The Killegrew. Charlton ex, 



75- 

 Cornwall Kae. Sib. Scot. 15. 

 Borlafe Cornnv. 249. Tab. 24. 

 Camden^ Vol. I. 14. 

 Le Coracias. Brijfon a'v. II. 



4. Tab. I. 

 Corvus gracculus. Lin. fyjl. 



158. 

 Monedula pyrrhocorax. Haf- 



felquiji it in. 238. 

 Br. ZooL 83. plate L *. 

 Gracula pyrrhocorax. Scopoli, 



No. 46. 



THIS fpecies is but thinly fcattered over the 

 northern world : no mention is made of it 

 by any of the Faunijl's \ nor do we find it in other 

 parts of Europe., except England^ and the Alps"^. 

 In Aftdy the ifland of Candia produces itf. In 

 Africa., ARgypt : which lad place-^ it vifits towards 

 the end of the inundations of the Nile J . Except 



* P/in. nat. hiji. lib. X. c. 48. 



f Belon obf. 17. 



\ Hajfelquiji itin, 240. 



Brifony 11. 5. 



j^gypt 



