S72 JAY; ClafsH. 



nine ounces : the length is eighteen inches ; the 

 breadth only twenty-four. 



VI. The JAY. 



Le Jay, Behn av. 289. Le Geay, Garrulns. Brijfon a'V', 



Pica gland aria. Ge/ner av. 700. ii. 47. 



j^/Jr.a'v.i.^g^. Allonfkrika, Koinfkrikj. Faun. 



Olina. 35. Suec.fp. go. 



Wil. orn. 130. Skov-fkade. Br. 33.. 



Raiifyn. av. 41. NufT-heher. Kram. 335. 



Ghiandaia. Zinan. 67. Br. Zool. 77. plate D. 



CoTvus-glandarius. L/>.^/^. 256. 



TH I S js one of the mod beautiful of the Britijh 

 ijzizv. birds. The weight is between fix and feven 



ounces : the length thirteen inches ; the breadth 

 twenty and a half. 



The bill is ftrong, thick and black •, about an inch 

 and a quarter long. The tongue black, thin, and 

 cloven at the tip : the irides white. The chin is 

 white on each fide the bill : at the angle of the mouth 

 are two large black fpots. The forehead is white 

 ilreaked with black : the head is covered with very 

 long feathers, which at pleafure it can ereft into the 

 form of a creft : the whole neck, back, breafl: and' 

 belly are of a faint purple dalhed with grey ; the 

 covert feathers of the wings are of the fame color. 



The firft quil feather is black ; the exterior weba 

 of the nine next are afli-colored, the interior v/ebs 

 dufky : the fix next are black -, but the lower fides of 

 their exterior webs are white tinged with blue ; the 

 two next wholly black ; the laft of a fine bay color 

 tipt with black. 



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