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ffcCLu-qk-uV, The Jay, Pica GlandariaJ 



Numb: XVI. 



TS Length from the point of the Bill to the end of the Tail was 14 Inches; its 

 Breadth when the Wings are extended 2 1 Inches and a half, its Weight 7 Ounces ; 

 the Bill dark a(h Colour inclining to black, ftrong, near an Inch and a half long j 

 the Tongue black, thin, pellucid, and cloven at the tip ; the Irides of the Eyes white ; 

 the Feathers of the Head and Body in this Bird are taller, flenderer, and fland more ered 

 than ordinary. Near on the lower Chap of the Bill are two black Spots, on each Side 

 one. The Chin and lower Part of the Belly whitifh, elfe the Breaft and Belly are of a 

 mixt cinereous and red; theRunnp above is white, the Back red, with a Mixture of blue; 

 the Feathers on the Crown of the Head variegated with black and white. 



The Sails of the Wings are in Number 20, of which the firft is Shorter by half than 

 the fecond, the fourth the longeft (being by Meafure 6 Inches and a quarter) the firfh or 

 outmoflis black, the bottom or lower Part white, which is proper to it alone i the 6 next 

 following have their exterior Vanes of an afli ColoQr, the 3 next likewife, but more ob- 

 fcurc and mingled with blue, being alfo marked toward their Bottoms with tranfverfe black 

 and white Strokes; the 5 fucceeding have their exterior Vanes half white, half black, 17/2;. 

 the lower half white, the upper black, but fo that each Extremity of the white is ter- 

 minated with blue; the fixteenth in place of the white of the four precedent hath tranf- 

 verfe blue, black and white Spots ; the feventeenth is black, having one or two blue Spots ; 

 the eighteenth is black with fomc little red ; the nineteenth red with the tip black, the 

 under-fides of all the Feathers of the Wing are of a dark or dusky Colour. The Covert 

 Feathers of the 1 5 exterior Sails arc very beautiful, being variegated or checquer'd with 

 black, white, and lovely fhining blue Lines, the reft of the tuvert Feathers being black. 



The Tail is 6 Inches and a quarter long, confifting of 1 2 Feathers wholly black except 

 toward their Roots: Under the Rump there is fomething of a blue mingled with cinereous. 



The Feet and Toes are of a ferrugineous dufky Colour, the middle Toe is the longeft, 

 the outmoft is equal to the back Toe, the lower Joint of the outmoft Toe is joined to 

 the middlemoft, the back Claw is the greateft. 



The Eggs are cinereous, with darker Spots fcarcc appearing ; the Guts are 24 Inches 

 long, the blind Guts but half an Inch; it hath a Gall and a long Spleen : The Stomach 

 or Gizzard not very flefhy, and having its Echinus, wherein were found -^(:or«5, &c. (whence 

 it got the Name of Pica Glandaria) It feeds alfo on Cherries, (of which it is very greedy) 

 Goosberries and Rajps, and other Fruit. 



The Female diiiers little or nothing from the Male either in Bignefs or Colour, fo that 

 it is very difficult to know them afunder. 



It will learn to imitate Man's Voice, and ipeaks very articulately. 



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