3 St 



Place. 



CROW. 



the tail is fix inches long, (lightly wedged in fhape, the outer 

 feather being fhorter than the middle one by an inch ; the colour 

 of it deep blue ; the fhafts of all the feathers black : the legs are 

 black. 



This bird has been noticed before by SteUir. 



The fpecimen from which the above defcription is taken, came 

 from Nootka Sound* } where it was met with by our laft voy- 

 agers, and is in the collection of Sir Jofe-ph Banks. 



22. 



CAYENNE JAY. 



Description. 



PlACEo 



Corvus Cayanus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 157. N° 9. 



Le Geay de Cayenne, Brif. orn. ii. p. 52. N° 2. pi. 4. f. 1.— 2V. enl. 373. 

 Le Blanche-coiffe, ou le Geay de Cayenne, Buf.oif. iii. p. 118. 



Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH thirteen inches : fize of our Jay. Bill an inch and a 

 quarter long, and grey j the feathers which furround it, the 

 forehead, cheeks, throat, and lower part of the neck, are black ; 

 part of thofe on the forehead fall forward on the bill, and the reft 

 ftand upright, and are pretty ftiff: on each fide of the head are 

 three white fpots ; the firft above the eye, the next beneath it, and 

 the third at the bafe of the lower mandible : the back and wings 

 are violet, with a tinge of afh-colour: the tail rounded, of a. 

 violet-colour, with brown edges and white tips, except the two 

 middle ones, which are violet brown ; legs and claws grey. 

 This inhabits Cayenne. 



* Perhaps not far different from one mentioned by Cookie, met with in NeivCa* 

 hdcnia, and defcribed thus: a kind of Crow, not half fo big; the feathers 

 tinged with. blue,. Cooke's Voy. vol. ii. p. 124. 



Corvus, 



