348 MAGPIES AND JAYS. 



trees of sticks; eggs, 4-5, gray or bluish, 

 mottled with darker. 



380. AMERICAN MAGPIE. 

 Large, 20, iridescent black; scapularies, 

 inner webs of secondaries and abdomen, 

 white, fig. 276; northern and western N. A.; 

 casual east to Mich, and northern 111. 



Fig. 277 



Blue Jay. 1-6. 



381. BLUE JAY. 



Smaller, 12; head crested, blue above, 

 white beneath, black and white markings 

 on wings; tail, and about head as in fig. 277. 

 Eastern N. A. from Fla. northward to 

 Canada. Abundant in woodlands and about 



