CORVUS 



G LAN DARIUS. 

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Generic Character. See Corvus Corax. 

 Synonyms. 



Corvus glandarius. Lin. Syfl. i. p. 156. 7. 



Orn 1. p. 1 57. 18. 

 Jay. Br. Zool. 1. 79. 7£. /o/. £>. Lath. Syn. 1. 

 />. 384. 19. i£. Suptt p* 79. Mw/. Or;?. D/#* 

 1. Bewick's Br. Birds, Pi. 1. p. 112. 



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JL H E Jay is about fourteen inches in length, twenty-one 

 in breadth, and weighs from fix to teven ounces. Bill ftrong, 

 the upper mandible has a flight notch near the tip which is 

 much hooked ; irides very light blue, approaching to white ; 

 feathers on the forehead and crown long, and capable of being 

 erected; legs and claws ftrong, the edges of the latter are 

 very {harp and project beyond the under furface. Colours of 

 the fexes alike ; in this fpecies the male exceeds in fize, being 

 near an inch longer and weighing about one ounce more than 

 the female. 



This beautiful fpecies of Crow ufually builds in low trees 

 or in coppice woods ; the neft is compofed of twigs, lined 

 with fmall fibrous roots and grafs ; it lays five or fix eggs of 



a pale 



