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24- REDJ-ABYIL.LED
D e s c r i p t io n .
P l a c e .
CHINESE JAY.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Geai de la Chine a bee rouge, Buf. uif. iii. p. i-i j .— P l.e n l. 622.
J ^ A R G E R than our Jay. Bill red V- fore part of the head,
the neck, and breall, velvet black : hind part o f the head
and neck of a light grey, mixing irregularly with the black on the
fore part of the head : the; body is brown above, and whitilh beneath,
with a light tinge of violet over all, which is moll confpi-
cuous on the wings, and leaft on the belly : the tail is: cuneiform,
and the wings reach to about one-third of its length 5 each feather
of the wings is of three colours, viz. light violet at the bafe,
black in the middle, and white at the end : the legs are red-: the
claws whitilh, long, and hooked, with the point black.
Inhabits China.
jy rU C H the make of a Jay, and about the fame fize. The bill
blueilh lead-colour: crown of the head brown : over each
eye a line of white; through the eye, and behind it, a llreak of
black: on the ears is a patch, compofed of a mixture of blueilh
and white, and this is encircled with black all round, which
black, at the under part defeends downwards on each fide, forming
a crefcent on the throat, within which the chin is white : the
upper part of the neck and body are of a rufous blolfom-colour :
fecond quills and tail brown; the laft long and cuneiform ; near
the end is a band of black, and each feather tipped with a dirty
white roundilh fpot: the legs lead-colour.
This defeription I took from fome beautiful drawings of Cfo’-
tiefe birds, in the pofieffion of the late Dr. Fothergill.
Le
Le Geai de Siberie, Bu f, u if iii, p. u S .— P l. ml. 60S. 26. SIBERIAN JAY.
D e s c r i p t io n » J ESS than a Jay: length ten inches. Bill one inch long, like
that of a Jay, and dulky: the forehead, fides of the head,
chin, and fore part of the neck, are pale, with a tinge of blue on
the fides of the head, and a lhade of buff on the breall: the top
of the head is brownilh black, and fomewhat crelled : body
above, and wings, cinereous, verging to brown on the back:
the breall, under parts of the body, and the rump, ferruginous
orange: the quills cinereous: the two middle tail feathers the
fame; the others orange: the legs cinereous.
Inhabits Siberia-, but its manners are totally unknown. P l a c e .
Le.Geai du Pérou, Buf. uif. iii. p. 116. N° 2:
*........................ . P I. enl. 625. _ 27- PERJAUVYI,AN
^ pH IS is-a bird o f Angular beauty. The bill is dulky; the D e s c r ip t io n .
bafe is furrounded'with a fine blue, palling a little behind
the eye, and'below it on each fide : the upper part of the body is
light green, from the middle of the back to the end of the tail,
fix. of the:- middle feathers o f which are of that colour; but
changes forwards by degrees to blueilh, and''finilhes at the top
of the head, which has a kind of white crown on i t : the breall
belly, and three * outfide tail feathers, are of a jonquil yellow: on
the throat, and fore part of the neck, is a patch of feathers,. imi-
* Four-in -the p/, , „ j .
fating