"gf^f THE FLORIDA JAY. t^usu^t 



last, we had an opportunity of examining several spe,. 

 cimcns, which we procured in the vicinity of St. An- 

 gustine, and near the mouth of the river St. Juan, ii; 

 East Florid a, from the most perfect pf wliich the folio av^ 

 ing description was taken . 



Genus GARRULUS, briss. 



3^21 of a middling size, rurnished at the hase with se- 

 tiiceous feathers directed forward, thick, stout, hent, 

 eiiltrate; upper mandihle with an obsolete notch to- 

 w ards the end, and deflected suddenly at the tip; nos'^ 

 ^nJs almost oval, open, or covered by the feathers of tho 

 Gapistrum; tongue cartilaginous, flattish, bifid at the 

 tip; wings of a middling size, spurious wing short, 

 :^oiinded at its extremity ; toes four, three forward, one 

 backward, the exteriors united at their base ^-^ VieiU. 



G ARR ULU S cce riilescens, 



(^'ryrt'?/.? Flon'danus, pica rJavdaria minor, the Little Jay of Flohcla, 'Bah. 

 s:;:?A-i's travels, p. 290. Lc Ccai azurin, Ganiilus cyanens, Vieill. Nou. Dicv 

 W> list. Kat. tcm. xii, p. 476. Le Gcai j^n is-Llcu, C. ccvi'iiIcsccnSf id. p. 480. 



Head, neck, wings, and tail bright azure ; back 

 ferocciii-browp, inclining to hair-bro>\ n ; loicer pavt^ 

 dark yellowish gray ; tail subcuneiform. 



Bill, legs, and claws, black f ivides hazel-brp>yu ; 



» V".i'llotaddsto his characters the foUowin^: «'The tlirce first rcirJg^es 

 f!rr-'!\ ^bc fo-jrth aixl fifth the longesi." la tlic ^:pecliiicn described above, I 

 ,d5£-r -cd -.hut the third and foui-th rerrig-cs were the ]'ry:e-\ of courjc tl'iv 

 flL..;-.,c^.crs arc net eoii5lT.;r!;. 



