Oafs II. CHATTERER. 173 



The greater covert feathers are moft beautifully 

 barred with a lovely blue, black and white : the reft 

 a-re black : the rump is white. The tail confifts of 

 twelve black feathers. The feet are of a pale brown: 

 the claws large and hooked. It lays five or fix eggs 

 of a dull white, mottled very obfcurely with pale 

 brown. The young follow their parents till the 

 fpringj in the fummer they are very injurious to 

 gardens, being great devourers of peafe and cherries : 

 in the autumn and winter they feed on acorns, from 

 ■whence the latin name. Dr. Kraraer * oblerves, that 

 they will kill fmall birds. Jays are very docil, and 

 may be brought to imitate the human voice : their 

 native note is very loud and difagreablc- 



VIL The CHATTERER. 



Garrulus Bohemicus. Ge/nerav. Phil. Tranf. No. 175. 



703. Ampelis garrulus. Lin.fyfi. 297. 



Aldr. av. I. 395. Sidcn Suantz, Snotuppa. Faun. 



Bohemian Chatterer. WU. orn. Suec.ff. 82. 



133. Sieden vel Sieben Suands. J5ra«- 



Silk Tail. Raii/yn. av. 85. mch 25. 



Ray''s Let(£rSf igS. 200. Zuferl, GeidenfchweifH. Kram. 



i,e Jafeur de Boheme, Bomby- 363. 



cilia Bohejajica. Brijfonaij.xu Br. Zool. yj. plate C, i. 



333- 



'nr^HE critical Faunijl-f may polTibly cenfure us 



-■' for admitting a native of Germany into a BritiJJj 



zoology ; but as we can plead the extreme beauty 



• Kram. elench. 335. 



■| Faunifts, are writers on the animals of particular countries : 



fuch is Linneeus, as author of the hiftory of the Snuedijh animals, to 



wiiich he eave the title of Fama Suecica : from one of the names 



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