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STELLER’S JAY. 
and the Netherlands, is found in Russia and Sweden, but does 
not inhabit the north of Norway, being by no means an Arctic 
bird. It is again met with in the southern parts of Africa, near 
the Cape of Good Hope, and is not uncommon all along the 
eastern coast of that continent. In Switzerland, and other 
mountainous countries, it is of very rare occurrence. 
STELLER’S JAY.— GARRULUS STELLERI Plate XIII. Fig. I. 
Corvus Stelleri, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 370, sp. 27. Lath. Ind. p. 158, sp. 20. Noh. 
Suppl. Syn. Birds U. S. sp. 63, his, in Zool. Journ. Bond. v. p. 2. Id. in App, 
Gen. JY. A. Birds in Ann. Lyc. N. Y. p. 438. — Garrulus coronatus? Swain- 
son, Syn. Birds Mex. sp. 67, in Phil. Mag. N. S. i. p. 437, old bird? — Gar- 
rulus Stelleri, Yiell. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xii. p. 481. — Geai de Steller, 
Baud. Orn. ii. p, 248. — Steller’s crow, Penn, Arct. Zool. sp. 139. Lath, 
Syn. i. p. 387, sp. 21. Id. 2c? Suppl. viii. p. Ill, sp. 8. Id. Gen. Hist. iii. 
p. 56, sp. 58. — Collection of Mr Leadbeater, in London. 
GARRULUS STELLERI.— ViEiLhOT.* 
Garrulus Stellaris, North. Zool. ii. p, 294. — Pica Stelleri, Wagl. Syst. Av, Pica, 
No. 10. 
To the enlightened liberality and zeal for science of that 
distinguished collector, Mr Leadbeater, of London, we, and the 
American public, are now indebted for the appearance of the 
first figure ever given of this handsome jay. Trusting his 
precious specimens twice to the mercy of the waves, he con- 
fided to us this, together with several other still more rare and 
valuable North American birds, which no consideration would 
have induced him to part with entirely, to have them drawn, 
* This species, though very similar, is distinct from the Garrulus coronatus, 
Swainson, which it is not impossible may yet be added as a straggler to the 
northern continent. We may here mention the splendid Columbia jay, the Pica 
B'ullockii of Wagler, which Mr Audubon has figured. It is a native of Mexico 
and California, and a specimen was procured by Mr Audubon from the Colum- 
bia River. It may be considered only as a straggler, and very rare. This, and 
one or two others, the Indian Garrulus erythrophynchus, are remarkable for the 
length of their tail. The body of the American bird is not so large as that of 
the common jay, but the total length is thirty-one inches.— Ed. 
