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SIBERIAN JAY. 



OMNIVOR^. 



Famihj CORVIDjE. 



Genus Garrulus. (Brisson.) 



Subgenus Perisoreus. {Bonaparte.) 



SIBERIAN JAY. 



Garrulus infaustus. 



Garrulus infaustus, 



Lanius infaustus, 

 Corvus iftfaustus, 



Dysornithia infausta, 

 Corvus mimtis, 



' ' rtissicus, 



" sibirictis, 

 Geai boreal — Geai imitateur, 

 Gemeiner meisenheher. 



Vieillot; Diet. vol. 12, p. 478. 

 Sparrman. Gould. Temminck; 



Man., 1835. 

 Linn.; S. N. 1766. 

 Linn.; Faun. Suae. Latham. 

 Temminck; (1820.) 

 Swainson; App. Faun. Bor. Am., p. 495. 

 Pallas; Faun. Russ. 

 Gmelin; Syst., p. 373. 

 Boddaert. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Top of the head and cheeks brownish; beak grey; 

 tail reddish ash, slightly rounded. Length twelve to thirteen inches. 



This bird, as Temminck remarks, and its congener, G. Canadensis , 

 form tlie natural passage from the Crows to the Nutcrackers, the only 

 European species of Avhich is in the British list. They have the same 

 straight beak as the latter bird, but it is shorter. Swainson, in the 

 Appendix to the Aves of the Fauna Boreali Americana, has formed 

 a distinct genus, under the name of Dysornithia., of which he gives 

 the American Jays — Canadian and Short-billed — with this bird as the 

 type; thus carrying into practice the remarks acutely made by Tem- 

 minck that these Jays form good species for multipliers of genera, and 



