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«,h Ja SfoL A & cSou “ir r d ,„ ,h ? C,uca ™' »<* 
nned to ,h. Formosa. 6 be ''“ S 
the common jay. garrulus glandarius. 
(Plate II.) 
Corvus glandarius, Linn., S. N i n 
Garralus glandarius, Macg. Hr’ r’ V n ‘ \ 
B. Eur, iv, p. Is i dT 2 cWtS,;\ P : ir 5 (i 8 37); Dresser, 
Lil A (X) P - 225 (,889,i 
o»"r 8 “a«^r:Lo“™" r . zrz : » ?™‘, '*•> 
; "ss* 
with black and cobait-blue ; bill black Tot^lT 7 C ,° h Verts . barred 
culmen, ,, s s wi„ cs , ■ N«k*., 
Sexes alike. 
moZ7^ylt»urI l ' lmg ‘ ^ ^ “ d feather. 
Range in Great Britain.-Apparently diminishing in nilm 
bers, owing to systematic persecution on account of £ h 
dations in game preserves, the Jay is still to hi f 
woodland districts, and is common in some places 5 In Tr 1 ? VI 
it is now only found in the south and east w L Irela, 1 ld 
spreading northward in Scotland, occurring as far a^Teraes* 
shn-e Occasionally large numbers migrate to our shores and 
they have been observed by Mr. Giitke to pass over Helgoland 
in some seasons in vast quantities. ^cugoiana 
Range outside the British Islands. — Throughout t-k 0 
par, Europe, but replaced i„ *Jg£m ifricaTy^" 
allied form {Garrulus minor), and in South-eastern Europe and 
Siberia by other species. Its highest northern range in Russia 
is, according to Mr. Seebohm, about lat. 63°, whence it 
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