FLORIDA JAY. Ais 
FLORIDA JAY. (Garrulus Floridanus.) 
PLATE XIV.—Fic. 1. 
Garrulus cyaneus, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. d Hist. Nat. xii. p. 476.—Garrulus cceru- 
lescens, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. @Hist. Nat. xii. p. 480.—Garrulus ccerulescens, 
Ord, in Jour. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. i. p. 346.—Corvus Floridanus, ob. Syn. 
Am. Birds, sp. 64, in Ann. Lyc. N. Y.—Id. Cat. Birds U. 8. sp. 64, in 
Contr. Mact. Lyc. Phil.—Corvus Floridanus, Pica glandaria minor, the Little 
Jay of Florida, Bart. Trav. p. 290.—Pica glandaria coerulea non cristata, Bart. 
Trav. p. 172.—Le Geay azurin, and Le Geay gris-bleu, Vietll. Nouv. Dict. 
l. c.—Philadelphia Museum, No. 1378, male ; 1379, female.—My Collection. 
GARRULUS FLORIDAN US.—BoONAPARTE. 
A SINGLE glance at the plate on which this fine bird is re- 
presented, and at that of the preceding, or Steller’s jay, will 
suffice, better than the longest description, to show the error 
committed by Latham in quoting, in his recent work, “General 
History of Birds,” the name of this species among the synonyms 
of that dedicated to Steller. In fact, the large crest of that 
species (of which the present is altogether destitute), and its 
black head, the light brown back, and bluish collar of this ;— 
but it is needless to carry the comparison between them any 
further; they are too dissimilar to suffer it, and we shall re- 
serve pointing out differences until required by closely related 
species, of which more striking examples will not long be 
wanting. 
Mistakes of this kind are perhaps unavoidable in a compila- 
tion of such extent as the work we have mentioned, and if they 
proceeded from a laudable desire of excluding nominal species, 
evinced throughout, we should refrain from censure; but when, 
on the contrary, we find in the same work such repeated in- 
stances of an inconsiderate multiplication of species, they can- 
not be too severely condemned. 
Vieillot, in the case of this bird, has fallen into the contrary, 
and much more common error, of making two species out of 
it—one from personal observation, and the other by compila- 
tion. This mistake has already been corrected by Mr Ord, 
