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OMNIVORZ. 
Family CORVID 4.) 
Genus Garrutus. ( Brisson.) 
SIBERIAN JAY. 
Garrulus infaustus. 
Garrulus infaustus, VreiLxor; Dict. vol. 12, p. 478. 
as ee TemmMinck; Man. 1835. 
Lanius infaustus, Linn.; S. N. 1766. 
Corvus G Linn.; Faun. Suec. 
“e “ec 
Larnam. TrmMincx. (1820.) 
Dysornithia infausta, Swainson; App. Faun. Bor. 
Am., p. 495. 
Corvus mimus, Patras; Faun. Russ. 
« — sibiricus, Guetin; Syst., p. 373. 
Geai boreal—Geai imitateur, Or THE FRENCH. 
Gemeiner meisenheher, OF THE GERMANS. 
Specific Characters.—Top of the head and cheeks brownish; 
beak grey; tail reddish ash, slightly rounded. Length twelve to 
thirteen inches. 
Tuis bird, as Temminck remarks, and its congener, 
G. Canadensis, form the natural passage from the Crows 
to the Nutcrackers, the only European species of which 
is in the British list. ‘They have the same straight beak 
as the latter bird, but it is shorter. Swainson, in the 
