STELLER’S FAY. 20T 
STELLER'S JAY. (Garrulus Stelleri.) 
PLATE XIII.—Fte. 1. 
Corvus Stelleri, Ginel. Syst. i. p. 870, sp. 27.—Lath. Ind. p. 158, sp. 20.—Wob. 
Suppl. Syn. Birds U.S. sp. 63, bis, in Zool. Journ. Lond. v. p. 2; Id. in 
App. Gen. N. A. Birds in Ann. Lyc. N. Y. p. 438.—Garrulus coronatus ? 
Swainson, Syn. Birds Mex. sp. 67, in Phil. Mag. N. 8. i. p. 487, old bird? 
—Garrulus Stelleri, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. d Hist. Nat. xii. p. 481.—Geai de 
Steller, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 248.—Steller’s Crow, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 139.— 
Lath. Syn. i. p. 387, sp. 21; Id. 2d Suppl. viii. p. 111, sp. 8; Id. Gen. Hist. 
iii. p. 56, sp. 58.—Collection of Mr Leadbeater, in London. 
GARRULUS STELLERI.—VIEILLOT.* 
Garrulus Stellaris, Worth. Zool. ii. p. 294.—Pica Stelleri, Wagl. Syst. Av. Pica, 
No. 10. 
To the enlightened liberality and zeal for science of that 
distinguished collector, Mr Leadbeater, of London, we, and the 
American public, are now indebted for the appearance of 
the first figure ever given of this handsome jay. Trusting his 
precious specimens twice to the mercy of the waves, he confided 
to us this, together with several other still more rare and valu- 
able North American birds, which no consideration would have 
induced him to part with entirely, to have them drawn, 
engraved, and published, on this side of the Atlantic. It is 
the frequent exercise of similar disinterestedness in the pro- 
motion of scientific objects that has procured for Mr Lead- 
beater the distinction with which he is daily honoured by 
learned bodies and individuals. 
The Steller’s jay is one of those obsolete species alluded to 
in the preface to this volume. It is mentioned by Pallas as 
* This species, though very similar, is distinct from the Garrulus 
coronatus, Swainson, which it is not impossible may yet be added as a 
straggler to the northern continent. We may here mention the splendid 
Columbia jay, the Pica Bullockit of Wagler, which Mr Audubon has 
figured. It is a native of Mexico and California, and a specimen was 
procured by Mr Audubon from the Columbia river. It may be con- 
sidered only as a straggler, and very rare. This, and one or two others, 
the Indian Garrulus erythrophynchus, are remarkable for the length of 
their tail, The body of the American bird is not so large as that of the 
common jay, but the total length is thirty-one inches.—Ep, 
