] 2() CORVID.E. 



Besides the countries already named as inhabited by the 

 Nutcracker, Pennant says he received a specimen from Den- 

 mark by means of M. Brunnich, author of the Ornithologia 

 Borealis, and the bird is also included in the Zoologia Da- 

 nica of Mliller. It is said to be common in the pine forests 

 of Russia, Siberia, and Kamtschatka. 



The beak is black ; the lore, or space between the beak 

 and the eye, dull white ; irides brown ; top of the head umber 

 brown without spots ; the sides of the head, the scapulars, the 

 whole of the back, the lesser wing-coverts, and all the under 

 surface of the body clove brown, each feather terminating 

 with an elongated triangular spot of dull white ; the greater 

 wing-coverts and the wings blackish brown, the ends of the 

 feathers rather lighter in colour than the other parts ; the 

 rump uniform clove brown, without spots ; upper tail-coverts 

 blackish brown ; the two middle of the twelve tail-feathers 

 also blackish brown, without any white ; the next tail-feather 

 on each side has a narrow white tip ; the white colour occupies 

 more space in each next feather towards the outside, increas- 

 ing to a space of three-quarters of an inch at the ends of thoscr 

 on the outside ; the under tail-coverts and the under surface 

 of the tail-feathers greyish brown, the latter ending in dull 

 white ; tail in form nearly square at the end ; legs, toes, and 

 claws, black. 



The whole length of the specimen described thirteen inches 

 and three quarters. The length of the wing from the carpal 

 joint to the end of the longest quill-feather seven inches : the 

 first quill-feather one inch and a half shorter than the second, 

 which second quill-feather is three quarters of an inch shorter 

 than the third, the third equal in length to the eighth ; the 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth feathers one quarter of an inch longer 

 than the third, all three nearly equal in length, and the 

 longest in the wing. M. Temminck says -the brown plumage 

 of the female is tinged with red. 



