steller’s jay. 59 
smaller < Tlv'f which, in the others, is much 
should lm V ' 1 i he Lh«scafe major, and Quiscalus baritus 
surp r i sin< r ! , ® en ‘Jonfounded together, is not a little 
hidn'r eiidif S - i ormor sixteen inches long, the tail 
the ti D 0 ?.l „ U l • les ’ an d extending- fire inches beyond 
the tail ' 1" V 1 "® ’ whilst the hitter is only ten inches, 
loner ,ucn “» cuneiform, four inches and a half 
„ and ‘Vi”’ four inches and «. u «„ 
the wi„, r s ending hut two inches beyond the tip of 
specie,. *® osseous Carina is similar in these two 
“like, ’from ri • ,nailiill P s of the females are much 
females 0 f ti * i stat<;ment , it is apparent, that the 
corres|) 0ni | • “irgcst and smallest crow blackbirds 
that docs „A disposition of their colours ; a parity 
comparative . e5E, st m the intermediate species. In 
the female however, they differ considerably : 
{dread y state I ■ ■ ntUs > though smaller, as wo have 
lar^or than tv ’. 1 S 5 *J l P ro I )OI ’tion to its mate, considerably 
whilst the °ther, only half an inch, 
smaller. nale °* “* e major is nearly four inches, 
Yj le * 
observe U| U ^’ !ls We have had occasion personally to 
fo become eitb 10St i* n * 6 h'uthered tribes, are subject 
this circumtw Wh ° lly or P al 'tiaHy albinos. From 
ht'ced in the n ' *’ "' mi,T0| is errors have been intro- 
11 e P ,l S es °t ornithological works. 
GENUS VI — GARR VL US, VlIilLL. 
■' -1 STELZEXI, LATHAM. — STEI.LEb’s JAY, BONAP. 
bonapakte, PLATE XIII. PIG. 
T o 
foa^dkSthed hhorahty and Zeal for science 
London the \ collector, Mr I.eadbeater, of 
“Ppearauee of tb' d* j «* >U> 1C ’ ar0 indebted for the 
“ome ja v " t ‘ho hist figure ever given of this hand- 
the mere; o f /t " ■'.* precious specimens twice to 
'ritb several h Wa !?n C0,,t,ded to us this, together 
^cricau bi rr . her f 1 L m0re rar ?, and valuable North 
ls > which no consideration would have 
