348. 
lil. 
349. 
350. 
CORVIDA1— GARRULINZE: JAYS. 421 
as much of arascal. The nest is placed in thick shrubbery, as big as a bushel, bristling with 
a chevauc-de-frise outside, with a lateral covered way leading to the nest within. Eggs 6-9, 
1.20 to 1.40 long by 0.90 to 1.00 broad, pale drab, dotted, dashed, and blotched with purplish- 
brown. 
P. nut/calli. (To Thos. Nuttall.) YELLow-BILLED Macpre. Bill and bare space about 
eye yellow. Otherwise, precisely like the last, of which it is a perpetuated accident! The 
European magpie sometimes shows the same thing, and in some other species, like P. morio, 
the bill is indifferently black or yellow. California, common. 
CYANOCIT'TA. -(Gré’ *«bavos, kuanos, blue; kira, kitta, a jay.) Cangaes Buus Jays. 
Conspicuously crested ; wings and tail blue, black-barred ; bill and feet black. Length 11.00- 
12.00; wing or tail 5.00-6.00. Nostrils large, subcircular, but concealed. Wings and tail of 
equal lengths, both rounded. Hind claw large, equalling or exceeding its digit in length. 
There are two species of this beautiful genus, one light blue and white, Eastern, standing 
quite alone ; the other dusky-bodied, Western, running into several varieties. 
Analysis of Species and Varieties. 
Purplish-blue, whitening below, with a black collar . 5 cristata 349 
Sooty-brownish or -blackish, bluing on body behind, wings and tail; the Inter blacks paired. 
Sooty-blackish ; littlo if any blue on forehead; none about eye; wing-coverts unbarred . stellert 350 
Sooty-blackish; but blue on forehead and above eye; wing-coverts unbarred . annectens 351 
Sooty-brownish, blue on forehead; little if any blue about eye ; wing-coverts unbarred . Jrontalis 353 
Sooty-brownish, the crest quite black. Bluish-white streaks on forehead and about eye; wing- 
coverts black-barred. . So Foe eo eS ‘ . macrolopha 352 
C. crista‘ta. (Lat. cristata, crested. Fig. 274.) Buiun Jay. - Purplish-blue, below pale 
purplish - gray, whitening on 
throat, belly, and crissum. A 
black collar across lower throat 
and up the sides of the neck and 
head behind the crest ; a black 
frontlet bordered with whitish. 
Wings and tail pure rich blue, 
with black bars, the greater 
coverts, secondaries, and tail- 
feathers, except the central, 
broadly tipped with pure white ; 
tail much rounded, the gradua- 
tion over an inch. Length 
11.00-12.00 ; extent 16.00- 
17.50; wing and tail, each, 
5.00-6.00; bill 1.25; tarsus 
1.35. Q similar, not so richly 
blue: smaller. There is much 
difference in size between north- 
ern and southern bred birds, as in the Ageleus. Florida specimens are particularly small, the 
bill relatively larger, the crest less, the white on wings and tail restricted; as worthy as 
some other Floridan races to be named (C. ¢. florincola, N.). Eastern N. A., especially U.S., 
but N. to Hudson’s Bay; W. to the central plains; a very abundant resident or half-migratory 
bird,. breeding throughout its range; a well-known character! Nest in trees and bushes, or 
any odd nook, large and substantial; eggs 5-6 in number, 1.00 to 1.20 long by 0.80 to 0.90 
broad, drab-colored with brown spots. 
C. stelleri. (To G. W. Steller.) Srexuer’s Jay. g¢ 9: Whole head, neck, and back sooty 
blackish, little if any lighter on throat, and with little if any blue on forehead or about eyes ; 
Fig. 274. — Blue Jay, reduced. ( Sheppard del. Nichols sc.) 
