770 THE LONG-CRESTED JAY. 
sing. My friend, who caught the object of this article, is firm in 
the belief that on one occasiorf it made, not without some success, 
an effort to imitate the canary. If this is a fact, it would of itself 
prove much in the direction of these remarks. 
THE LONG-CRESTED JAY. 
BY ELLIOTT COUES. 
sin = Hi 
Tus bird is the Cyanura macrolopha of naturalists, and the 
genus it belongs to is distinguished among our jays by the ele- 
Fig. 134. 
The Long-crested Jay. 
gant crest that all the species possess, as well as by the rich blue 
color that shows particularly on the wings and tail, which are also 
barred with black. This group of birds will be immediately rec- 
ognized, when we say that the familiar blue jay of the eastern 
United States is the type of the whole; there are only half a 
dozen species, among which the common eastern species stands a 
little apart, being ornamented with richer and more variegated 
colors, and inhabiting a different zoological province. In the west 
it is represented by two kinds, Steller’s and the Long-crested, 
so much alike that they might be considered as one species ; the 
last named runs into the C. coronata of Mexico, and this into a 
South American kind called C. galeata; while from these last 
