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OMNIVOILE. 



Family CORVID^E. 



Genus Garrulus. (Brisson.) 



SIBEEIAN JAY. 



Garrulus infaustus. 



Garrulus infaustus, Vieillot; Diet. vol. 12, p. 478. 



" " Temminck; Man. 1835. 



Lanius infaustus, Linn.; S. JN". 1766. 



Corvus " Linn.; Faun. Suec. 



Latham. Temminck, 1820. 

 Dysornithia infausta, Swainson; App. Faun. Bor. 



Am., p. 495. 

 Corvus mimus, Pallas; Faun. Russ. 



" sibiricus, G-melin; Syst., p. 373. 



Geai boreal — Geai imitateur, Of the Fkench. 

 Gemeiner meisenheher, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Top of the head and cheeks brownish; 

 beak grey; tail reddish ash, slightly rounded. Length twelve to 

 thirteen inches. 



This bird, as Temminck remarks, and its congener, 

 G. Canadensis, form the natural passage from the Crows 

 to the Nutcrackers, the only European species of which 

 is in the British list. They have the same straight beak 

 as the latter bird, but it is shorter. Swainson, in the 



