‘4 PL AWE VG 
“ ‘The tail is fix inches and a quarter long, confifting of twelve 
feathers, wholly black except toward their roots: under the rump 
there is fomething of a blue mingled with cinereous, 
«© The feet and toes are of a ferruginous dufky colour, the 
middle toe is the longeft; the outmoft is equal to the back toe; the 
lower joint of the outmoft toe is joined to the middlemoft ; the back 
claw is the greatetft. 
‘© The guts are twenty-four inches long; the blind guts but half 
an inch; it hath a gall and a long fpleen: the ftomach or gizzard 
not very flefhy, and having its echinus, wherein were found 
acorns, &c.” 
He adds, “ The female differs little or nothing from the male, 
either in bignefs or colour, fo that it is very difficult to know them 
afunder:”’ but after the publication of his firft Volume of Birds, he 
_rectifies this error, in a fupplement which is prefixed to the work. 
«© The following obfervations,” (fays he) “I received from Dr. Der- 
ham, after the defcriptions were printed. He hath obferved the Cock 
Jay (Plate 16. Vol..4.) to be fomewhat bigger than the Hen, the 
feathers on the head to be blacker, the ftripes longer, and the black 
and blue colours more elegant in the Cock than in the Hen.”’ 
Jays generally build in woods, preferring a fituation near the fkirts 
the neft is compofed of fibrous roots, and young twigs, erected on a 
bafe of feveral large fticks, and is placed on the top of a thorn-bufh,. 
or other under-woed, or between the firft branches of low decayed 
trees: the female lays five or fix eggs, of the fize of a pigeon’s, of 
a cinereous olive colour, marked with very pale brown {fpots: the 
young Jays remain with their parents till the next fpring; and at 
the pairing time they each choofe his mate, to propagate their future 
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