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C. corax. The Raven. 

 C. carnivorus. Baird ! 

 D.c. Bill, legs and feet black ; irides with two circles, greyish 

 white and cinereous brown; eggs 5 to 6, muddy bluish green, 

 spotted with olive brown. 



Dorsal and ventral aspects, glossy black with steel blue reflec- 

 tions ; tail much rounded extending beyond the wings ; 3rd pri- 

 mary longest. Length about 26 inches. A rare bird in the 

 district of Montreal, though occasionally met with. 



C. corone. The Common Crow. 

 C. Americanus. Baird ! 

 v.s.p. Bill, legs and feet black ; irides hazel ; eggs 2 white. 

 Dorsal and ventral aspects. Glossy black, with purple reflec- 

 tions on the back, and sombre on the vent. Tail rounded a little, 

 extending but little beyond the wings. The feathers acute. 1st 

 primary very short ; in length equal to 9th. 4th primary long- 

 est. Length 18J- inches. Very common, often hybernating with 

 us. 



Subgenus Garrulus. 

 Sub. char. Bill shorter and straighter than with the crows. 

 Upper mandible somewhat inflected at tip ; lower one keeled ; 

 tail more or less cuneiform ; feathers of head erectile. 

 C. cristatus. Blue Jay. 

 Cyanura cristata. Baird ! 

 v.s.p. Bill and legs with the feet black ; irides hazel ; eggs 5, 

 dull olive, spotted brown. 



Dorsal aspect. Frontlet, and line rising perpendicularly from 

 the nostrils, black ; streak from the eye passing above the auri- 

 culars and uniting on the nape of the neck jet black ; crest, small 

 wing and tail coverts sky blue ; dorsal region sky blue tinged 

 with purple; tail long, subrotund, sky blue, with 10 or 12 bars 

 of black on the centre feathers, the bars diminishing in number to 

 the lateral feathers, on which they are obsolete, or at least imper- 

 fect; all the feathers except the centre ones broadly tipped with 

 white; greater wing coverts sky blue, barred black and tipped 

 with white; primaries brownish black on the inner vanes, and 

 sky blue on the outer ; secondaries, except the three or four last 

 which are marked on both vanes, like the great wing coverts, the 

 others brownish black on the inner vanes, and sky blue barred 

 with black on the outer. 



