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breaft, and ftomach, are afh-coloured; and all 
the reft of his body is black, glofled with biue. 
Sometimes the fackdaw is kept tame in a cage, 
and taught to fpeak. 

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* Wake Jay is a moft beautiful bird. Its 
wings are barred, or ftriped, with black 
and blue; the neck, back, breaft, and ftomach, 
are of a faint purple colour, mixed with grey. 
The young follow their parents until fpring. 
In the fummer they eat peas and cherries in the 
garden; and in autumn they live vpon acoras, 
and fometimes they kill fmall birds. 
Their natural note is very difagreeable; but 
they are eafily taught to fpeak. 
_ The forehead of the Jay is white, with black 
ftreaks ; and his head is covered with long black 
feathers, which he can raife when he chufes, and 
then they form a creft. 
The Jay is a very filly, and paffionate baal 
and fometimes in his anger, entangles himéelf be- 
tween two branches and fo dies. 
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