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C R O W» 



is alio found in Denmark, and mentioned likewife as a Ruffim- 

 fpecies. It is found in Scotland, as well as in England, but not in 

 the iflands adjacent. 



19. 



Var. A. 

 +■ WHITE JAY. 



Description. 



Le Geay blanc, Brlf. cm. ii. p. 51. A. 



'"THIS is wholly white,, the bill and legs not excepted, and the- 

 irides red. I have fuck an one in my collection, which was- 

 found in the neft, with four others of the common colour... 



20* 



+-BLUE JAY. 



Corvus criftatus, Lin. Syft. 1. p.. 157. N? 8. 



Le Geay bleu de Canada, Br if. em. ii. p. 55. N° 4. — Buf. oif. iii, p. 12QJ. 



PL ml. 529. 

 Blue Jay, Catefi. Car. i. pi. 15. — Ed<w. pi. 239. — Amer. Zool. W. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.. 



Description. A/T^^'^ fmaller than our Jay : length eleven inches. Bill 

 black, above an inch long : the head is crefted and blue : 

 round the bafe of the bill black :. a ftreak of the fame paffes on 

 each fide through the eyes, below the creft, and behind it ; and 

 then tending forwards unite to form a crefcent on the breaft : the 

 fides of the head and throat are of a blueifh white, and there is a 

 fpot of the fame over the eye : hind part of the neck and back 

 blue: wings and -tail the fame; all the feathers of the laft, 

 except the two middle ones, tipped with white, and the feathers 

 of both it and the wings elegantly barred with black : the greater 

 coverts and fecond quills tipped with white : the breaft is of a 

 bloffom- colour 1 the belly and under tail coverts white: legs 

 ^ dufky 



