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OMNIVOROUS BIRDS. 
COLUMBIA JAY. 
(Garrulus Bullockii, Wageer. Audubon, pi. 96. Garrula guberna- 
trix , Temminck.) 
Sp. Charact. — Bright blue ; with a lofty crest of separate plumes ; 
capistrum, throat, and breast black ; belly whitish ; tail-feathers 
largely tipt with white, except the 4 upper, which are longer, the 
2 central ones curved, and nearly twice the length of the lat- 
erals. 
Of this large and magnificent species, scarcely any 
thing is, as yet, known, but the splendid figure in Audu- 
bon’s unparalleled work. It is not uncommon in Mexico 
and California, and the individual figured by Audubon 
was obtained on the banks of the Columbia river. The 
size appears to be equal to that of a Raven, and the bright 
blue, graduated, fan-like tail, with 2 of the central 
feathers extended far beyond the rest, appears more like 
the train of some tropical Parrot, than a near relation to 
the common Crow. 
Length 31 inches. The crest formed of long and distinct feathers ; 
region round the eyes, throat, and upper part of the breast, black. 
3d and 4th primaries longest ; the 1st very short. Bill and legs 
brownish black. Inner webs of the quills dusky, and no stripes on 
any part. 
FLORIDA JAY. 
( Corvus floridanus , Bartram. Audubon, pi. 87. Orn. Biog. l.p. 444 0 
Garrulus floridanus , Bonap. Am. Orn. ii. p. 59. pi. 14. fig. L 
Philad. Museum, No. 1378, 1379.) 
Sp. Charact. — Not crested; bright azure-blue ; the back brownish ; 
beneath whitish-grey ; tail wedge-shaped. 
This elegant species is, as far as yet known, almost 
wholly confined to the interior of the mild peninsula of 
