Garrulus glandarius rufitergum. BRITISH 



JAY. 



Garrulus glandarius rufitergum Hartert, Vog. pal. 

 Faun. i. 1903, p. 30 : Tring, England. 



Garrulus glandarius (Linn.} ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. 1877, 

 p. 93 (part.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st eel. 1883, p. 67 (part.) ; 

 Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 235. (part.). 



Rufitergum is a wrongly-formed word = rufous-backed : from rufus and 

 tergum. 



Distribution. Resident in England and Wales and widely 

 though, owing to persecution, locally distributed. In Scot- 

 land it is still more local, and is absent from the northern 

 Highlands and Islands and the Hebrides. 



Garrulus glandarius hibernicus. IRISH JAY. 



Garrulus glandarius hibernicus Witherly $ Hartert 

 in Witherby's British Birds, ivv!911,p. 234: Wexford, 

 Ireland. 



Hibernicus = Irish. 



Distribution. Resident in and confined to Ireland, where 

 it is more or less local in its distribution. 



Genus NUCIFRAGrA Brisson, Orn. ii. 1760, p. 58. 

 Type : N. caryocatades (Linn.). 

 Nucifraga, from nux a nut, and fmngere = to break. 



Nucifraga caryocatactes. THICK-BILLED 

 NUTCRACKER. 



Corvus caryocatactes Linnceus, Syst. Nat, 1758, p. 10G : 

 Sweden. 



Nucifraga caryocatactes (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. 

 1877, p. 53 (part.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 67 (part.) ; 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 233 (part.). 



Caryocatactes = Ka/jvoicaraKTris a nutcracker in Athenseus 53s.; from 

 tnpvov = a nut, and KaT-ayrvpi I break in pieces, 



