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the rest of the plumage purplish black, inclining to green on the 

 rump ; half the wing coverts brownish black, the others deep blue ; 

 second quills deep blue, crossed with eight or nine black bars, as in 

 the last species ; greater quills black, edged with bine green, fore 

 part of the neck and breast dusky ; belly and vent pale blue ; tail 

 six inches long, cuneiform, blue, the outer feathers shorter by one 

 inch than the middle ones, shafts black ; legs black. 



Inhabits North America, in the woods of Nootka Sound ;* Steller 

 was the first who noticed this species, being shot there when Bering's 

 Crew landed upon America. Mr. Bartram met with a bird in the 

 journey between the lower trading house and Rock Point, supposed to 

 be no other than this. He says, it is of an azure blue, no crest on 

 the head, nor so large as the blue Jay of Virginia, but equally 

 clamorous in the clumps and coverts. 



59— CHATTERING CROW. 



Corvus Jamaicensis, Ind. Orn. i. 154. Gm. Lin. i. 367. Baud. ii. 230. Shaw's Zool. 



vii. 345. 

 Comix Jamaicensis, Bris. ii. p. 22. Id. 8vo. i. 160. 



Comix nigra garrula, Rail Syn. 181. Sloan. Jam. 298. Brown Jam. 473. Klein Av.bS. 

 Corneille de la Jamaique, Buf. iii. p. 67. 

 Chattering Crow, Gen. Syn. i. 377. 



SIZE of a common Crow. Length eighteen inches. Bill one 

 inch and a half long, black ; plumage in general, also the legs, black. 



Inhabits the north side of the mountains of Jamaica ; makes a 

 chattering noise, different from that of the European Crow, and is 

 thought not to be strictly the same bird ; it feeds on berries, beetles, 

 &c. and by some esteemed good meat ; is probably found in Georgia, 



* A Bird, not greatly differing, was met with in New Caledonia, described as a If ind of Crow, 

 not half so big ; the feathers tinged with blue. — Cook's Voy. ii. 124. 



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