42 crow. 



yellow ; eyelids black ; general colour of the plumage cinereous ; 

 except the tail, which is five inches long, and black ; legs black. 

 Inhabits New-Caledonia. From the drawings of Sir Joseph Banks. 



38— WHITE-EARED JAY. 



Corvus auritus, Ind. Orn. i. 160 Daud. ii. 250. Shaiv's Zool. vii. 307. 

 Petit Geay de la Chine, Son. Voy. ii. 188. 1. 107. 

 Little Jay, Perm. China, p. 195. 

 White-eared Jay, Gen. Si/n. Sup. p. 83. 



SIZE of the blue Jay, length eleven inches. Bill black ; irides 

 yellowish ; the feathers round the base of the bill, the throat, and 

 fore part of the neck black ; top of the head bluish ash-colour, and 

 the feathers elongated ; between the black and ash-colour on the 

 forehead, a few white feathers ; on the ears a large patch of white; 

 the colour of the body, wing coverts, and tail cinereous brown ; 

 quills blackish, edged with grey ; tail four inches long, rounded at 

 the end, and bends downwards ; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits China; common at Canton: seen in flocks in Dean's 

 Island, Wanipoo River, picking up food on the mud of the shore. 



A. — Length twelve inches and a half. Bill one inch, stout, and 

 black ; the base above covered with short velvet-like feathers, tending 

 to the eye on each side ; behind this, across the forehead, a narrow 

 white crescent ; the rest of the head above, the nape, and hind, part of 

 neck deep lead or ash-colour ; beneath the eye on each side a large 

 patch of white feathers, covering the jaws, and meeting together on 

 the base of the under mandible ; the rest of the plumage, wings, and 

 tail brownish olive, but the outer edges of the great quills grey ; tail 

 rounded, two inches and three quarters long ; legs black. 



Inhabits China, and is probably a variety of the White-eared Jay. 

 said to be remarkable for its singing. 



