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THE HUNTING GI88A. 
The Florida Jay, California Jay, Woodlawn Jay, Ultramarine Jay, Green Jay, Canada 
Jay, and Brown Jay are of comparatively recent discoveries. 
The Canada Jay {Peris or eus canadensis) is strikingly different from other species. 
We are apt to associate blue with the Jays. In this case there is a combination of white and 
gray. This bird is found from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the northern portions. Audubon 
found it breeding in Maine and New Brunswick, and as far north as Labrador. When hard 
pressed, like other Jays, it preys upon the young of other birds. It seeks the most unfre- 
quented places, 
keeping almost 
constantly on the 
ground, yet some- 
times at twilight 
mounts to the top 
of a small tree 
and twitters its 
notes. 
A European .A 
species of this 
bird is known un- 
der the scientific 
term Perisoreus 
infaustus , or Car- 
vus sibericus. It 
is illustrated with 
the nut - cracker 
on page 801. 
The Green 
Jay ( Xanthura 
luxuosa ) inhabits 
the valley of the 
Bio Grande, in 
Texas, and southward. It is about the size of the preced- 
ing, and is nearly as peculiar as that species, its green 
and white being quite as singular. 
The Brown Jay {PsilorMnus morio) is a much 
larger bird, and differs from all others in being of a rich 
umber-brown. It inhabits the Bio Grande region. 
HUNTING CISSA .— Urocissa erytkrorfiyncfia. 
Asia presents a most beautiful and interesting ex- 
ample of this group of birds in the Hunting Cissa, 
or Hunting Crow of India. 
This lovely bird is a native of Nepal, and is spread 
throughout the southeastern part of the Himalayas, and 
in its own favored locality is far from scarce. Owing, 
however, to certain peculiarities in the coloring, here- 
after to be described, a specimen is very seldom obtained 
in first-rate condition, and never takes its place in our museums glowing in all the resplendent 
tints with which it is so liberally gifted. It is a very brisk and lively bird, and, like many 
others of the same group, is much given to imitating other birds, performing its mimicry with 
wonderful truth, and copying not only their voices, but even their peculiar gestures. 
It is much more carnivorous in its tastes than would be imagined from an inspection of 
