BLUE, AND STELLER'S CROW. 249 



Jay, Clayton's Firginia.—Phtl. Tranf. iii. 590. — Leta/on, 141. ijg. BlubJ 



Blue Jay, Catejby, i. tj. — £Au. 239. — Latham, i. 386. 

 Corvus Criftatus, Lin. Syji, 157. 



Le Geay Bleu de Canada, Brtffhn, ii. 55. — Dt Buffhn, iii. ifo.— Bl. Mus,— 

 Lev. Mus. 



^ With a ftrong thick bill : head adorned with a rich blue creft : 

 a ftripe of black from the bill extending beyond the eyes : 

 throat and cheeks white : neck fwrounded with a black collar : breaft 

 of a pale vinaceous red : belly white : back of a pale purple : coverts 

 of the wings and fecondaries of a rich blue, beautifully barred with 

 black ; the fecondaries, and one order of the coverts, tipt with white : 

 tail long and cuneiform, barred with blue and black ; the tips of all 

 white, excepting thofe of the two middlemoft : legs black. Length 

 twelve inches. 



Inhabits Newfoundland, Canada, and as far fouth as Carolina. Has Placs, 



the fame aftions and jetting motion as the Englijh Jay, but its cry 

 is lefs harlh. It feeds on fruits and berries, and commonly fpoils 

 more than it eats. It is particularly fond of the berries of the bay- 

 leaved Smilax. Refides in the country all the year. Lays in May five 

 or fix eggs, of a dull olive, with rufty fpots. 



r^ With a crefted head : bill, neck, and back, black: lefl'er co- ijj.STBLiER's^i 



verts of the wings dufky^ the others of a rich refplendent blue: 

 exterior webs of the primaries of the fame color -, the inner dufky j 

 the fecondaries of a beautiful rich blue, crofl'ed with narrow black 

 bars, remote from each other : the rump, belly, and breaft, of a dull 

 blue : tail very long, cuneiform, and of a fine glofly blue ; the mid- 

 dle feathers flightly barred. Size of an Englijh Jay. 



Inhabits the woods about Natka or George found, in North America, PtAca, 



It had been before difcovered by Steller, when he landed on the fame 

 fid« of that continent. Defcribed from a fpecimen in the coUeftion 

 of Sir Joseph Banks, 



• Latham, i. 387, 



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