6 coRviDj;. 



Garrulus glandarius rufitergum. British 



Jay. 



Garrulus glandarius rufltergum Hartert, Viig. pal. 



Faun. i. 1903. p. 30 : Tring, England. 



Garrulus glandarius (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. 1877, 

 p. 93 (part.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 67 (part.) ; 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 235 (part.). 



Rufitergum is a wrongly-formed word = rufous -backed : from rufus and 

 tergum. 



Distribution. — Eesideut in England and Wales and widely 

 though, owing to persecution^ locally distributed. In Scot- 

 land it is still more local, and is absent from the northern 

 Highlands and Islands and the Hebrides. 



Garrulus glandarius hibernicus. Ikish Jay. 



Garrulus glandarius hibernicus IVitherhy c*i- Hartert 



in Witherby's British Birds, iv. 1911, p. 231: Wexford, 

 Ireland. 



Hibernicus =^ Irish . 



Distrihution. — Eesident in and confined to Ireland, where 

 it is more or less local in its distribution. 



Genus NUCIFRAGA Brisson, Orn. ii. 1760, p. 58. 



Type : N. caryocatades (Linn.). 



NRcifraga, from nuw = a nut, und fr<xngere = to break. 



Nucifraga caryocatactes. Thick-billed 



NUTCRACKEK. 



Corvus caryocatactes Linncms, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 106 : 



Sweden. 



Nuoifraga caryocatactes (Z/)???.) ; SJirirjje, Oaf. Birds £. M. iii. 

 1877, p. 53 (part.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 67 (part.) ; 

 Saunders, 3Limwl, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 233 (part.). 



CaryociUactes = KniivoKaTaKTr]^ = a nutcracker in Athensens 53 b.- from 

 •papuor = a nut, and KaT-uyyvjii = I break in pieces, 



