crow. 63 



67 —CAYENNE JAY. 



Corvus Cayanus, Lid. Orn. i. 160. Lin. i. 157. Gm. Lin. i. 370. Daud. ii.242. Shaw's 



Zool. vii. 360. 

 Garrulus Cayanensis, Bris. ii. 52. t. 4. f. 1. Id: 8vo. i. 169. 

 Geay de Cayenne, Buf. iii. 118. PL enl. 373. 

 Cayenne Jay, Gen. Syn. i. 388. Id. Sup. ii. p. 80. 



SIZE of our Jay ; length thirteen inches. Bill grey, round the 

 base of it, the forehead, cheeks, throat, and lower part of the neck 

 black ; on each side of the head three spots of white ; back, wings, 

 and tail violet, with a tinge of ash-colour ; tail rounded, violet, with 

 brown edges, and white tips ; the two middle feathers violet brown ; 

 legs grey. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — In Brisson's figure, the white spots are 

 blended into one, and form a curved patch of white from the eye to 

 the chin on each side ; and in a specimen in the Leverian Museum, 

 the whole space in front is black, except a small perpendicular dash 

 of white under the eye. 



68— SURINAM CROW. 



Corvus argyropthalmus, Ind. Orn.i. 164. Gm. Lin. i. 369. Jacq. Vog. t. 1. Shaw's 



Zool. vii. 366. 

 Corvus Surinamensis, Gm. Lin. i. 375. 

 Surinam Crow, Gen. Syn. i. 397. Id. Sup. 81. Brown III. t. 10. 



SIZE of a Crow. Bill dusky ; Head deep brown ; at the back 

 of it rich blue, beneath that pale green ; under each ear, and on the 

 hind part of the neck, a spot of the same; neck, breast, belly, and 

 wing coverts deep changeable green ; prime quills dusky, the ends 

 rich blue ; tail dusky ; legs flesh-colour. 



