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relsome, they are nevertheless easily tamed when taken young, 

 and soon learn to pronounce a few words. They abound in 

 Europe and the Indies. The European Jay ( Garrulus glandariits). 



Fig. 218.— European Jay {Garrulus glandarius, Belon). 



Fig. 218, is a pretty bird of soft and blended plumage, the 

 feathers of the fore part of the head elongated, oblong, and 

 erectile : its general colour is a delicate brownish red tinged with 



Fig. 219 —The Nut-craoker Crow {Nucifraga, Bnas.). 



grey, approaching to purple on the back. The most conspicuous 

 trait of the plumage is the patch of ultramarine blue, banded with 

 blackish blue, on the primary coverts. 



