636 BIRDS. PIES. Crow. 



620 14, Carthagena Crow. — J 3. Corvus argyrophthalmus. 25. 



Is black, with the bread blue, and the eyes filvery white ; the tail being white at the 

 tip, and the bill, legs, and feet, black. Jacquin, beyt. der voeg. 1. 



Inhabits Carthagena in South America. — This fpecies is about the fize of the Jay ; it lives in the 

 thickeft parts of the woods, having a clear and not unpleafant whiftling voice ; it feeds on infefts, 

 fruits, and feeds, and when tamed will eat flefh both raw and boiled. The outer parts of the wings 

 are blue, and the face has a blue fpot over each eye and another beneath. Mr Latham unites this 

 and the Surinam Crow together as fynonimous, notwithftanding the very great diffimilarity in their 

 defcriptions as given by Dr Gmelin. 



621 15. Doubtful Crow. — 14. Cortnis dubius. 26. 



Is rufty brown, the crown and temples being blackifh ; the neck and belly are yellow- 

 ifh, and the bill, eyes, legs, and feet, black. Jacquin, beytr. der voeg. 2. 



Inhabits Carthagena in America. — A white line, rifing from the bafe of the bill, pafles backwards 

 through the orbits to the hind head where it joins a fimilar line from the other fide of the head. 



622 16. Ciefted Crow. — 15. Corvus crijlatus. 8. 



Is blue ; the wing coverts being tranfverfely ftreaked with black, the neck having a 

 white collar, and the head a blue creft. Lath. ind. om. i. 158. n. 19. 



Garrulus canadenfis caeruleus. BrifF. av. ii. 54. n. 2. t. 4. f. 2. — Pica glandaria caerulea. Klein, 

 av. 61. n. 3. Robert, ic. 1676. t. 14. — Geay bleu de Canada. Buff. oif. iii. 120. PI. enl. n. 529. — 

 Haubenhaher. Borowfk. nat. ii. 102. t. 9. a. — Blue Jay. Arft. zool. ii. 249. n. 138. Catefb. carol, 

 i. t. 15. Edw. glean, t. 239. f. 1. Lath. fyn. i. 386. n. 20. 



Inhabits North America. — This fpecies refembles the Jay, but is much fmaller, meafuring only 

 eleven inches long ; it is gregarious, and its voice is not harfh ; it feeds on chefnuts, fruits, berries, 

 feeds, and grain, being very deftru&ive to the fields of Maize, and, when in great neceffity, devours 

 worms and fmall ferpents ; it builds in marihy places, the female laying five or fix dull olive eggs 

 fpotted with rufty, in May. The head is furmounted by a blue creft ; a black ftreak paffes on each 

 fide from the bafe of the bill beyond the eyes ; the cheeks, chin, and belly, are white ; the breaft is 

 pale reddifh, like port wine and water; the back is pale purple; the wing coverts and fecondary wing 

 quills are rich blue barred with black, the fecondaries and one row of- the covert feathers having white 

 tips ; the tail is long and wedge-like, being barred with blue and black, all the quills having white 

 tips except the two middle ones ; the legs and feet are black. 



623 17. Stellers Crow. — 16. Corvus Stelleri. 27. 



Is black, the head being crefled ; the under parts of the body, the wings, and long 

 wedge-like tail, are blue. Lath. hid. orn. i. 158. n. 20. 

 Stellers Crow. Arft. zool. ii. 249. n. 139. Lath. fyn. i. 387. n. 21. 



Inhabits the north -weft coaft of America. — Is about the fize of the Jay, meafuring fifteen inches 



long : 



