BLAGK-JTJ'JADEI) JAY. 



OMNIVOR^. 

 Fatnily CORVID^^. 



Genus Garrulus. (Brisson.) 



Generic Characters. — Beak medium size, thick, straight, compressed, with 

 cutting edges, abruptly bent, and slightly dentated at the tip. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, and hidden by setaceous feathers ; feet like the crows. Wings 

 of medium length, rounded; first three quill feathers graduated, the fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth of nearly equal length, and the longest in the wing. Tail 

 square or slightly rounded; feathers of the head elongated, and capable of 

 being raised into a tuft at will. 



BLACK-HEADED JAY. 



Garrulus Krynicki. 



Garrulus Krynicki, Kaleniczenko. 



" " Dresser; fig. tmica, B. of E., p. 17. 



" iliceti, Degland; after Russian authors in 



litt. (1846.) 

 Geai a culotie noir, Of the Frenxh. 



Specific Cliaj-acters. — Forehead greyish white, each feather with a black 

 spot extending over the terminal portion of the feather; entire crown to 

 nape black; feathers elongated; nape and back greyish, much more grey in 

 tinge than in Common Jay, but washed with rufous towards rump; rump 

 and under tail coverts white. Length fourteen inches and a half; wing seven 

 inches four lines; tail six inches four lines; tarsus one- inch eight lines. — 

 Dresser. 



In introducing a "Black-headed Jay" into the first edition, I gave 

 Degland's reason for doubting whether I had got hold of the right 

 bird. It appears that Degland was right, and that Gene's Black- 

 headed Jay does not occur in Europe, and that the Caucasian race 



