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relsome, they are nevertheless easily tamed when taken young, 

 and soon learn to pronounce a few words. They abound in 

 Europe and the Indies. The European Jay ( Garrulus glandarius), 



Fig. 218.-European Jay (Garrulus glandarius, Belon). 



Fig. 218, is a pretty bird of soft and blended plumage, the 

 feathers of the fore part of the head elongated, oblong, and 

 erectile : its general colour is a delicate brownish red tinged with 



Fig. 219. Tlie Nut-cracker Crow (Nucifraga, Briss.). 



grey, approaching to purple on the back. The most conspicuous 

 trait of the plumage is the patch of ultramarine blue, banded with 

 blackish blue, on the primary coverts. 



