BRITISH BIRDS. 85 



THE JAY. 



(Garrulus glandarius, Temm. Gcai glandworc, 

 Temm.) 



THIS beautiful bird is not more than thirteen 

 inches in length. Its bill is black ; eyes white ; 

 the feathers on the forehead are white, streaked 

 with black, and form a tuft which it can erect and 

 depress at pleasure : the chin is white, and from 

 the corners of the bill on each side proceeds a 

 broad streak of black, which passes under the eye ; 

 the hinder part of the head, the neck, and back, 

 are of a cinnamon colour ; breast the same, but 

 lighter; lesser wing coverts bay; the belly and 

 vent almost white; the greater wing coverts are 

 elegantly barred with black, fine pale blue and 

 white alternately ; the greater quills are black, 

 with pale edges, the bases of some of them white ; 



