GROW. 55 



56— BROWN CROW. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill very stout, yellow, with a notch 

 near the tip of the upper mandible ; nostrils covered with hairs, and 

 some longer than the rest ; body above pale brown, with dashes of 

 darker brown or blackish ; breast paler than the parts above, a little 

 mottled; belly dusky white ; prime quills dusky, on the outer web 

 tawny, to within half an inch of the ends ; the inner webs the same, 

 but for a shorter length ; the first quill very short, the third longest of 

 all ; tail six inches and a half long, cuneiform, the outer feathers 

 being only three and a half, all of them rounded at the ends; legs 

 very stout, black. 



I found a specimen of the above in the collection of Mr. Lead- 

 beater. 



57. -BLUE JAY. 



Corvus cristatus, Ind. Orn. i. 158. Lin. i. 157. Gm. Lin. i. 369. Borowsk. ii. 102. 



p. 9. A. Bartr. Tr. 286. Baud. ii. 248. Skate's Zool. vii. 359. Nat. Misc. pi. 313, 

 Garrulus Canadensis coeruleus, Bris. ii. 54. t.4. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 170. 

 Garrulus Indicus coeruleus, Robert Ic. pi. 20. 

 Pica glandaria cristata, Klein. Av. 61. Rob. Ic. 1676. 1. 14. 

 Le Geay bleu du Canada, Buf. iii. 120. PL enl. 529. 

 Blue Jay, Gen. Syn.'i. 386. Arct. Zool. ii. 138. Catesb. i. t. 15. Edw. pi. 239. Am. 



Orn. i. pi. 1. 



SMALLER than our Jay. Length eleven inches; breadth 

 fifteen inches ; weight two ounces and a half. Bill black, and above 

 one inch long ; round the base of it black ; the hairs covering the 

 nostrils pale blue ; through the eyes a black streak, passing to the 

 nape ; above this the feathers of the head are full, and may be raised 

 as a crest, which is blue ; from thence the black streak passes forwards 

 to the breast, there forming a crescent ; breast blossom-colour ; belly 

 and nnder tail coverts white ; sides of the head and throat bluish 



