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CANADA JAY. 
I have here introduced are but a small part of the valuable 
collection of new subjects in natural history, discovered and 
preserved, amidst a thousand dangers and difficulties, by those 
two enterprising travellers, whose intrepidity was only equalled 
by their discretion, and by their active and laborious pursuit of 
whatever might tend to render their journey useful to science 
and to their country. It was the request and particular wish 
of Captain Lewis, made to me in person, that I should make 
drawings of such of the feathered tribes as had been preserved, 
and were new. That brave soldier, that amiable and excellent 
man, over whose solitary grave in the wilderness I have since 
shed tears of affliction, having been cut off in the prime of his 
life, I hope I shall be pardoned for consecrating this humble 
note to his memory, until a more able pen shall do better 
justice to the subject. 
CANADA JAY CORVUS CANADENSIS Plate XXL Fig. 1. 
Linn. S yst. 158. — Cinereous Crow, Arct. Zool. p. 248, No. 137. — Lath. i. 389. — 
Le geaybrun de Canada, JBriss. ii. 54. — Buff. iii. 117. 
GARRULUS CANADENSIS Swainson. 
Corvus Canadensis, Bonap. Synop. p. 58. — Garrulus Canadensis, North. Zool. ii* 
p. 295. 
Were I to adopt the theoretical reasoning of a celebrated 
French naturalist, I might pronounce this bird to be a debased 
descendant from the common Blue Jay of the United States, 
degenerated by the influence of the bleak and chilling regions 
of Canada; or perhaps a spurious production between the 
Blue Jay and the Cat Bird : or, what would be more congenial 
to the Count’s ideas, trace its degradation to the circumstance 
of migrating, some thousand years ago, from the genial shores 
of Europe, — where nothing like degeneracy or degradation 
ever takes place among any of God’s creatures. I shall, 
however, on the present occasion, content myself with stating 
