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feathers. This unspotted bird ranges through the coniferous woods of Western 
America, nesting in high pines in mountainous and northerly localities. 
The nutcrackers of the Old World are birds of well-marked form and colour, 
not only sharing the possession of a long, straight, pointed bill with their American 
relative, and a black-and-white tail which is always conspicuous in flight, long- 
wings, nostrils covered with bristly feathers, but exhibiting, in a special degree, 
NUTCRACKER AND SIBERIAN JAY (J liat. size), 
a general uniformity of coloration among themselves, all three species being 
constantly of a general chocolate-brown, more or less spotted with white. Two 
of these species belong to the higher parts of the Himalaya, where they are 
resident throughout the year in forests of pine and cedar. The best known species 
is the European nutcracker {N. caryocatactes), which inhabits the northern and 
central portions of Europe and Northern Asia, ranging into Northern China and 
Japan. A conspicuous species during many months of the year, sometimes 
approaching the neighbourhood of human dwellings in search of food, in the 
