384 BLUE-TAILED CROW. / 



other than the Cornish Chough, but Mr. Ray ob- 

 serves that the crest and size of the bird forbid that 

 supposition. In the Ornithology of Monsr.Daudin, 

 we are informed that the very old birds are bare 

 on the head, and Mr, Latham observes that the 

 young are also said to be destitute of the crest, 

 from which circumstance both the young and very 

 old birds have sometimes been called Bald Crows, 



BLUE-TAILED CROW. 



Corvus cyanurus. C. castaneus, subtus flams coeruleo lineatus^ 

 capite nigro fasciato, fascia pectorali transversa caudaque 

 cceruleis, 



Chesnut Crow, beneath yellow lineated with blue, the head 

 banded with black, the tail and transverse pectoral band 

 blue. 



Turdus cyanurus. Blue-Tailed Thrush. Lath, ind, orn, Sf 

 Syn, 



Merle de la Guiane. P/, Enl. 355. 



A MOST beautiful species; of a size soynewhat 

 larger than a Blackbird, and of a moderately stout 

 form : bill and legs brown : body above chesnut- 

 coloured, with blackish wings, the coverts tipped 

 with white J along the head three longitudinal 

 broad black stripes. Native of South America, 

 particularly of Guiana, where however it is con- 

 sidered as a rare bird. It is extremely well figured 

 in the Planches Enluminees, 



