fcORVUS 
GLANDARIUS, 
J A r. 
Generic Character. «S'^'^' Corvus Corax. 
Synonyms. 
toRVUS GLANDARIUS. iJu, Syfl. 1. />. I56. 7. J/li. 
Orn. 1. p. 157. 18. 
Jay. Br. 'loot. i. 79. lb, foL tab. D, Lath, Syn, 1. 
p, 384. 19. lb. Supt.p. 79, M?/;/. Orn, DiEi^ 
Vol 1. Bewicks Br, Birds^ PL i» p. a 2. 
TTh E Jay is about fourteen inches In length, twenty-one 
in breadth, and weighs from fix to feven 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 
ere^ed ; legs and claws ftrong, the edges of the latter are 
very fharp and proje6l beyond the under fiirface. 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 fmali fibrous roots and grafs ^ it lays five or fix eggs of 
SI pale 
