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It isa refilels and very quarrelfome bird: makes a harfh, chattering 
and fereaming noife; and is ever at variance not only with its own 
fpecies, but with every other inhabitant of the foreft: when deprived 
of liber’y, i: may be taught to imitate the human voice; but the ori- 
ginal appearance of its plumage is fo altered by confinement, as 
fcarcely to retain any of the beautiful colours, which are fo emi- 
nently confpicuous in the wild ftate. 
It is a native of Denmark, and of Ruffia; of Scotland, and of 
England; but does not frequent the iflands adjacent. 
Latham fays, “ The Jay, I believe, is not fpread fo far as many 
others of the genus, as we do not hear of its inhabiting further fouth 
than Jtaly and Greece. 
¢ This {pecies is common in the woods both of Ruffia and Siberia, 
but none beyond the Lena *; Georgi mentions it as frequenting the 
Lake Baika‘, and Ruffel records it as an Aleppo fpecies +. I have 
a fufpicion alio that it extends to China, as it is to be feen in the 
drawings of birds from that country. 
“Tt is called by the name of Fay, about Arragon in Spain, as in 
England. in the lait it is not efteemed as food; but in the firft it 
is expofed to i2ic along vith other birds +.” It is alfo eaten in Swe- 
den ||. Supp. Gen. Syn. p. 79. N° 19. 
er Sa rie? 
be Ari, Zool. + Lift ° Alepp. pe 696 = Fault. rag. 
A Mr. Swederus. 
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