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forehead and eyes ; cheeks dusky ; fore neck greyish- white, with the 
shafts of the feathers dusky, and bordered below by a rather broad 
band of light blue, continuous with that of the neck ; lower parts pale 
purplish-grey. 
Intimately allied in colour to the Ultramarine Jay, but distin- 
guishable by its smaller size, and more rounded tail, and by its having 
a band of whitish across the forehead, and extended over the eye, 
where it is not in dots as in that species. 
Ma^e, Hi, 14. 
Confined to the Floridas. Not very common. Resident. 
Corvus floridanus, Bonap. Syn. p. 58. 
Florida Jay, Garrulus floridanus, Bonap. Amer. Om. v. ii. p. 
Florida Jay, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 230. 
Florida Jay, Corvus floridanus, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 444. 
234. 5. Garrulus Canadensis, Linn. Canada Jay. 
Plate CVII. Male and Female. Plate CCCCXXX. Fig. 3. Young. 
Upper parts dull leaden-grey ; lower dull yellowish-white ; fore- 
head yellowish- white ; hind part of the head and neck greyish-black ; 
throat and band passing round the neck, greyish-white; secondary 
quills and tail-feathers narrowly tipped with white. Young very dull 
slate-colour, paler on the abdomen, on the head blackish, wings and 
tail as in the adult, their tips of a duller white. 
Male, 11, 15. 
Rare, and only in winter, from Pennsylvania to New York. More 
abundant in Massachusetts. Common from Maine northward to the 
Fur Countries. Columbia River. 
Canada Jay, Corvus canadensis, WiLS. Amer. Omith. v. iii. p. 33. 
Corvus canadensis, Bonap. Syn. p. 58. 
Garrulus canadensis. Whisky Jack, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 295. 
Garrulus brachyurus. Short-billed Jay, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. 
p. 296. Young. 
Garrulus canadensis, Canada Jay, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 232. 
Short-billed Jay, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 599. 
Canada Jay, Corvus canadensis, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 53 ; v. v. p. 208. 
GENUS IV. NUCIFRAGA, Briss. NUTCRACKER. 
Bill as long as the head, moderately stout, conical, com- 
pressed, at the tip rather depressed ; upper mandible with 
its dorsal line slightly arcuato-declinate, the ridge convex, 
the sides rounded, the edges sharp and overlapping, without 
notch, the tip flattened and obtuse ; lower mandible with 
the angle short and rounded, the dorsal line straight, the 
sides convex, the edges sharpened a little involute, the tip 
flattened and rather obtuse. Nostrils basal, lateral, roundish> 
