Rone a 
Ablin, in Plate 16. Vol. 1. very accurately defcribes the Jay he 
took his figure from, which nearly correfponds with our {pecimen. 
“ Tts length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, was 
fourteen inches; its breadth, when the wings were Senced twenty- 
one inches and an half; its weight feven ounces; the bill dark afh co~ 
lour inclining to black, ftrong, near an inch and an half long; the 
tongue black, thin, pellucid, and cloven at the tip; the irides of the 
eyes white. Near on the lower chap of the bill are two black fpots, 
on each fide one. The chin and lower part of the belly whitilh, elfe 
the breaft and belly are of a mixt cinereous and red; the rump above 
is white, the back red, with a mixture of blue; the feathers on the 
crown of the head variegated with black and white. 
“¢ The fails of the wings are in number twenty, of which the firft is 
fhorter by half than the fecond, the fourth the longeft {being by mea- 
fure fix inches and a quarter); the firft or outermoft is black, the 
bottom or lower part white, which is proper to it alone; the fix 
next following have their exterior vanes of an ath colour, the three 
next likewife, but more obfcure, and mingled with blue, being alfo 
marked toward their bottom with tranfverfe black and white ftrokes ; 
the five fucceeding have their exterior vanes half white, half black, 
viz. the lower half white, the upper black, but fo that each extremity 
of the white is terminated with blue; the iixteenth, in place of the 
white of the four precedent, hath tranfverfe blue, black, and white 
{pots; the feventeenth is black, having one or two blue fpots; the 
eighteenth is black with fome little red; the nineteenth red with the 
tip black; the under fides of all the feathers of the wing are of a dark 
or dufky colour; the covert-feathers of the fifteen exterior fails are 
very beautiful, being variegated or chequered with black, white, and. 
lovely thining blue lines, the reft of the covert-feathers being black. 
“ The 
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