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OMNIVOR^E. 

 Family CORVIDJE. 



Genus Garrulus. (Brisson.) 



Generic Characters. — Beak medium size, thick, straight, com- 

 pressed, with cutting edges, abruptly bent, and slightly den- 

 tated at the tip. Nostrils basal, lateral, and hidden by setaceous 

 feathers; feet like the crows. Wings of medium length, 

 rounded; first three quill feathers graduated, the fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth of nearly equal length, and the longest in the wing. 

 Tail square or slightly rounded; feathers of the head elongated, 

 and capable of being raised into a tuft at will. 



BLACK-HEADED JAY. 



Garrulus melanocephalus. 



Garrulus melanocepAalus, Gene; Mem. della 



Acad, di Torino, 

 vol. xxxvii, p. 291. 

 with figure, 1840. 



" " Temminck. 



" glandarius melanocephalus, Schlegel. 



" iliceti, Degland ; after Rus- 



sian authors in litt., 

 1846. 

 Geai a culotte noir, Of the Feench. 



Specific Characters. — Beak, chest, and sides ferruginous; greater 



