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5. Genus PERISOREUS, Bonaparte, Sagg. Nat. p. 43 (1831). 

 1. Perisoreus canadensis {Linn.). — The Canada Jay. 



Corvus canadensis, LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 158 (1766). 



BufF. PI. Enl. 530 ; Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, Plate XXI, fig. 1 ; Aud. 

 B. of Am. Plate CVII ; oct. ed. IV, Plate CCXXXIV. 



Of frequent occurrence, according to Dr. Pickering, at Puget's Sound, 

 Oregon, in the month of June. 



6. Genus PICICORVUS, Bonajy. Cons. Av. p. 884 (1850). 



1. PicicoRVUS COLUMBIANUS {WUson) . — Clarke's Crow. 



Corvus colmnhianus, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, p. 29 (1811). 



Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, Plate XX, fig. 2 ; Aud. B. of Am. Plate 

 CCCLXII ; Oct. ed. IV, Plate CCXXXV. 



Noticed at Puget's Sound, Oregon, and mentioned in Dr. Pickering's 

 journal, as follows : 



" This bird is common in the pine groves, and is almost invariably 

 to be seen in scattered companies, rather noisy, uttering a harsh cry. 

 It feeds on the seeds of the pines, and in its manners and general 

 habits, reminds me much of the Cractici, of Australia. Wilson's figure 

 represents this bird too short. It has, in fact, the form of a jay, the 

 bill being more prolonged, more regularly conical, and but slightlj^ 

 curved. The tongue ends in two narrow lamina;.'' 



This bird, and the curious G/jmnokitta, discovered in Western North 

 America by the Prince Maximilian, of Wied, a distinguished natural- 

 ist, are evidently the representatives in North America of aberrant 

 groups of the extensive family of jays. The former bird is now fre- 

 quently brought in collections, though the latter quite rarely, and is 

 little known to naturalists. It is figured, and all the information re- 



