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turned inwards about the middle, with large and long recumbent 

 hairs or bristles; irides dark hazel; plumage wholly black, with 

 reflections of steel-blue and purple; the chin bare of feathers round 

 the base of the under mandible ; first quill feather little more than 

 half the length ; the fourth the longest, which reaches to within two 

 inches of the end of the tail ; this last is rounded, seven inches long. 

 Bill and legs black. 



Inhabits North America, observed first on the sea coast of Georgia, 

 approaching the shores of the river Savannah by break of day, 

 retiring to the interior as evening came on. Its food dead fish or 

 other garbage, that floated on the surface of the water, and which it 

 picked up on the wing, by means of the claws ; will also perch on 

 the backs of cattle like the magpie ; is seen sometimes to pick up 

 small lizards, while they are swimming with their heads above the 

 water ; this sort never mixes with the common Crows, and is supposed, 

 by Mr. Wilson, to be a new and undescribed species ; both from the 

 manners and voice, which is more hoarse and guttural than in the 

 common Crow ; seen near Philadelphia, from the middle of March to 

 the beginning of June; they build in tall trees, near the sea or shore, 

 and from the circumstance of six or seven being usually seen together 

 in July, it is probable that they have four or five young at a time. 



The male and female are much allied to each other. 



62 —PERUVIAN JAY. 



Corvus Peruvianus, Ind. Orn. i. 161. Gm, Lin. i. 373. Daud. ii. 249. Shaw's Zool. 



vii. 363. 

 Geay de Perou, Buf. iii. 116. PI. enl. 625. 

 Peruvian Jay, Gen. Syn. i. 391. Nat. Misc. V. 6. pi. 213. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill dusky ; forehead, and a patch on 

 each jaw, fine blue ; back part of the head, from the eye to behind 

 the neck, whitish ; sides of the neck under the eye, the chin, throat, 



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