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the Strajburg Jay ; but I find it to be very fcarce there. Edwards 

 mentions one fhot on Gibraltar rock. Adanfon * obferves, that it 

 " comes to refide for fome months of the fummer in the fouthern 

 parts of Europe, and goes back to fpend the remainder of the year 

 in Senegal" having (hot one on board the fhip, on its palTage, in 

 April; and m another place fays, that they are at Senegal 'in flocks, 

 along with the Cardinal Sparrows. 



Frifch obferves, that it makes its nefts in woods, where there is 

 birch j that it does not come to its colour till the fecond year; 

 flies in troops in autumn ; often feen in tilled grounds, with 

 Rooks and other birds, fearching for worms, fmall feeds, and 

 roots f. Its flefh taftes like that of a Turtle. It is faid alfo 

 fbmetimes to make the neft in holes in the ground J, in one of 

 which nefts two eggs v/cre found. The neft is generally filthy, 

 from the young evacuating their excrements therein j whence by 

 fome it was faid to make the neft of excrements. 



Shaw, in Travels, mentions a bird by the name of Shagarag, A variety,, 

 and defcribes it as having the fhape of a Jay, but a fmaller bill, 

 and fhorter legs : the body brown above : head, neck, and belly, 

 light green : wings and tail fpotted with deep blue. 



This is a Barbary bird, and, no doubt, only a fmall variety of 

 the other. He fays, that it builds the neft at the fides of rivers, 

 and its cry is fharp and fhrill. 



We are told in the Britijh Zoology, that it has been twice fhot 

 in England, and is remarkable for making a chattering noife, 

 from which it is called by fome Garrulus. 



* Adanf. Voy. \ Alfo beetles and frogs. Faun. Sue:. 



% Niftj. des eif, iii. p. 139. 



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