CAYENNE
JAY.
RED-BILLED
JAY.
- 29.
+- MAGPIE.
"England. In the laft it is not efteemed as food; but in the firft
it is expofed in the markets for fale along with other birds* It
is alfo eaten in Sweden
Cayenne Jay, Gen. Syn.i. p. 388» N° 22.
J > E T W E E N that figured by Brijfon, and one in the Leoerian
Mujeum, I obferve a fmall difference. In Brijfon’s figure o f
it, the white goes round in the fhape o f a crefcent. In the Leve-
rian fpecimen, the whole front to behind the eyes is black, only a
finall perpendicular-dafh o f white under the ear.
Red-billed Jay, Gen. Syn. i. p. 390. N® 24.
J ^ N O W N in China by the name of Shan-naw.
Magpie, Gen. Syn. i. p. 392. N°29_ArB. Zool. ii. N° 136. .
CorvusPica, Brun.N* 32.— Muller, N° 92_Georgi Reife, p. i Sj__Faun.
Brag. p. 72.— Seff. Vog. pi. in p. 3.
T Find this bird to extend much farther on the continent than I
once fuppofed. It is mentioned by Ruffel as common at Alep-
P ° t i-in Georgi’s lift of birds frequenting the Lake Baikal, and
from thence to China. I had long fufpedted the laft circumftance,
from feeing, it, among others, in Chinefe drawings; but the matter
is now beyond doubt, having lately met with one of thefe birds,
brought from China, in the colledion of Sir Jofeph Banks. It is
fomewhat fmaller than that ufually feen in England.
• Fam. Brag. ' J Mr, Snuederut. % Hiß. Blep. p. 69.
I find
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I find by Mr. Hutchins, that in fome part o f Hudjon’s Bay it goes
by the name of She pecum memewuck. It is not unfrequent at all
feafons in the interior parts, but feldom met with near the fettle-
ments. He obferved, that one being caught in a Martin trap at
Tork Fort, was thought a rarity, fuch a circumftance not having
happened for twenty years before,
Surinam Crow, Gen. Syn. i. p. 397. 33.
Corvus argyropthalmus, Jacq. Vog. N° 1.
r p H I S is raid to be of the fize of a Jay. General colour o f the D escrip t ion.
plumage black : irides filver white: above and beneath the
eye a -fpot o f blue : bread and outer part o f the wing the colour
o f Prujfian blue: tip of the tail white: bill and legs black.
This inhabits Carthagena, in NewSpain, and is called Oifeau de Place a n dMan-
Plata, It has a monotonous voice, frequents woods, and, being nerst.
eafily tamed, is often kept in houfes.
Short-tailed Crow, Gen. Syn. i. p. 398. N° 37. 37.
La Breve de Malacca, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 190. pi. no. SHORT-TAILED
CROW.
* p H I S varies from thofa before defcribed, chiefly in having the V ar.D.
head and back part o f the neck black : a greenilh'ftreak over D escription.
the eye, bounded beneath with blue: chin white : fore part of the
neck and back green: belly rufous: vent red.
Inhabits Malacca. P lacet.
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