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GARRULUS STELLERI. 
induced him to part with entirely, to have them dra' f [ 
engraved, and published on this side of the Atlantic. ! 
is the frequent exercise of similar disinterestedness * 
the promotion of scientific objects, that has procU^ 
for Mr Leadbeater the distinction with which b« 1 
daily honoured by learned bodies and individuals. 
The S teller’s jay is one of those obsolete spe cl ) 
alluded to in the preface to this volume. It is 
tioned by Pallas as having been shot by Steller, " ‘‘j 
Behring’s crew landed upon the coast of America, j 
was first described by Latham from a specimen in ^ 
Joseph Banks’s collection from Nootka Sound, and 1 ’ 
his authority has been admitted into all subseqi*** 
compilations. The species is indeed too well cba*^ 
terized to be doubted, and appears moreover to W 
been known to Temmiuek, as it is cited by him 
true jay in his Analysis of a General System. Nef 
theless, adhering strictly to our plan of not admit*' 1 ! 
into the Ornithology of the United States any but s"‘ 
as we had personally examined, we did not include *v 
species either in our Catalogue, or Synopsis, of 5 
birds of this country ; and it is but recently that * 
Leadbeater’s specimen has enabled us to add it to 1,1 
list. 
In elevating our subgenus Garrulus to the rank": 
genus, we merely conform to the dictates of nature! ! 
this instance coinciding with Temminck, whose i' 1 * 1 ' 
tion it is, as he informs us, to include in ’it the jays t 
magpies, leaving the name of Corvus for those sp e , 
which are distinguished by their black plumage, “! 
short and even tails. These birds are on every acco" 
well worthy of this distinction, and we cheerfully a^J 
an arrangement which we deem consonant with na* 1 
but we cannot agree to the change of terming 
( Garrula ) which he has attempted to introduce, nK 
the pretence that his genus is more extensive tba>' j 
genus Garrulus of former authors. That genus 
fact, formed by Brissou, and afterwards by Li 1 ’, 
united with Corvus. This latter genus of Limit’ C 
tainly contained within itself the constituents of ser 
