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NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 









Dimensions. 















Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin. 



Length, total 



13 







Length of bill above . 



. 1 



1* 



Length of middle nail 



. 



4* 



„ of tail 



. 6 







,, of tarsus 



1 



H 



„ of hind toe 







6 



„ of wing 



. 5 



6 



,, of middle toe . 



. 



10| 



„ of its nail 



. 



6 



„ of bill to rictus 



. 1 



*i 















[97.] 2. Garrulus Stelleri. (Vieillot.) Steller's Jay. 



Sub-family, Garrulinse, Swains. Genus, Garrulus, Auct. 



Steller's Crow (Corvus Stelleri). Penn. Arct.Zool., ii., p. 249, No. 139. 



Garrulus Stelleri. Vieil. Ency. Meth., p. 893. 



Steller's Jay (Garrulus Stelleri). Bonap. Orn., ii., p. 44, pi. 13, f. 1. 



Plate liv. 



This Jay is not uncommon in the summer time on the Pacific coast of America, 

 from the mouth of the Colombia to the fifty-sixth parallel. It also frequents the 

 Rocky Mountains, where Mr. Drummond procured a specimen. In its manners 

 it greatly resembles the Garrulus cristatus*. 



DESCRIPTION 



Of a specimen, killed near the sources of the Colombia, October, 1826. 



Colour. — Top and sides of the head and crest velvet-black ; forehead glossed with verdi- 

 ter-blue. Chin and throat grey. Neck above and below, breast, and scapulars pitch-black, 

 that gradually changes, on the interscapulars, to flax-flower blue, which is the colour of the 

 rest of the back, the primaries, greater wing coverts, tail coverts, and of the whole under 

 plumage. Lesser quills, small coverts, and tail azure or china-blue, the upper angle of the 

 wing marked with bluish-black, the tertiaries and tail f barred with the same. Inner webs 

 and shafts of the quills, tips of the greater coverts, and shafts of the tail brownish. Insides 

 of the wings blackish-grey. Bill and legs pitch-black. — R. 



Form, typical. Bill rather more conic than that of G. cristatus, and the nostril feathers 

 much longer and denser ; in every other respect the forms of the two are essentially the 

 same. — Sw. 



* This is totally distinct from the Mexican Garrulus coronatus, Sw., (Syn.ofMex. Birds, No. G7,) although the 

 two birds have been confounded by some ornithologists. — Sw. 

 •+■ There are sixteen imperfect bars on the tail. 



