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tioned, and if they proceeded from a laudable det-if’, 
excluding' nominal species, evinced throughout! , 
should refrain from censure ; hut when, on the contfi® 
we find in tile same work such repeated instances <dj 
inconsiderate multiplication of species, they canittd 
too severely condemned. 
Vieiilot, in the case of this bird, has fallen into " 
contrary, and much more common, error, of malt, 1 ! 
two species out of it ; one from personal observa®j 
and the other by compilation. This mistake has alr^j 
been corrected by Mr Ord, in a valuable paper which 
drew up on his return from Florida, where he enjflfi 
the advantage of studying this species in its nib 1 ' 
haunts. 
“ When we first entered East Florida,” says Mr <" )r 
“ which was in the beginning of February, we saw i |( ! 
of these birds; and the first that we noticed wet®, 
the vicinity of St Augustine, on the 13th of the aK 
mentioned month. We afterwards observed them 
in the thickets near the mouth of the St Juan. IE 1 ! 
we conjectured that the species is partially migraw 
Their voice is not so agreeable as that of the Gw^, 
cristatus, or crested blue jay of the United States; **! 
are quarrelsome, active, and noisy; and construct tjj! 
nests in thickets. Their eggs 1 have not seen.” “ k 
blue jay, which is so conspicuous an ornament to? 
groves and forests of the United States, is also c 5 ! 
mon in Florida. This beautiful and sprightly him, 
observed daily, in company with the mocking-bird ; 
the cardinal grosbeak, around the rude habitation® v 
the disheartened inhabitants, as if willing to 
them amid those privations which the frequent Inf, 
wars, and the various revolutions which their pro'i 
has experienced, have compelled them to hear.” / 
Florida jay, however, is a resident in that couiif.'/j 
only removes from section to section. It is not COjd^ 
to Florida, where it was first, noticed by Bartraw, K| 
found also in Louisiana, and in the west extends i'" 1 ^ 
ward to Kentucky; hut along the Atlantic, not s° J 
In East Florida it is more abundant, being found 
