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OMNIVORZ. 
Family CORVIDA. 
Genus Garrutus. ( Brisson.) 
Generic Characters.—Beak medium size, thick, straight, com- 
pressed, with cutting edges, abruptly bent, and slightly den- 
tated at the tip. Nostrils basal, lateral, and hidden by setaceous 
feathers; feet like the crows. Wings of medium length, 
rounded; first three quill feathers graduated, the fourth, fifth, 
and sixth of nearly equal length, and the longest in the wing. 
Tail square or slightly rounded; feathers of the head elongated, 
aud capable of being raised into a tuft at will. 
BLACK-HEADED JAY. 
Garrulus melanocephalus. 
Garrulus melanocephalus, Gene; Mem. della 
Acad. di Torino. 
Vol. 37, %p. 290mm 
with figure. (1840.) 
y st TEMMINCK. 
“  glandarius melanocephalus, ScHLEGEL. 
cs tliceti, Dereuann; after Rus- 
sian authors in litt. 
(1846.) 
Geai a culotte noir, Or THE Frencu. ~ 
