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CORVUS GLANDARIUS. 
JAY. 
Wing; coverts blue, with transverse 
black and white lines; body pale, rusty, 
purple, mixed with grey. 
Corvus Glandarius, Lin. Gme. 
Le Geai, JBuffon. 
Jay, Pen. Lath. Mont. Bew. Shaw. 
The Jay, which must be considered as 
the most elegant British bird in this genus, 
measures thirteen inches in length, and 
about twenty inches and a half in the ex- 
pansion of its wings. 
These birds are very common inhabit- 
ants of our woods, where they build in the 
trees and bushes an artless nest, composed 
of sticks, fibres, and twigs, wherein the fe- 
male deposits five or six eggs, of a light 
brown colour, not very unlike those of the 
the Partridge, but smaller, and obscurely 
marked with a darker shade of brown. 
The young Jays (as was before men- 
