been A p t by*Stellerywh*en Behring’s cnew,.landed upon th e eoast of
A m e ® . It?was. firstss-des©ri>lfc}| by Latham .from; a specimen in
flpir Joseph Banks’s collection from Nootka Sound, and on his
guthority has been subsequent compilations*
T he speejes.is’indeed tqoisv.ell chgracterizeGLt© Jfetj^gtfbtedj- and
appears* naioreoyer iifa^ajfe^ j^ eAwknoaiCiBi to T em m iaA ^ t; is cited
by him as* a true JaW- in<A ^ ^ #Andiysis* of« ao*<;GseAOTSai.L System.”
M#yeutheless, adhering s te ic tly H ^ ^ r plan of, notiadoaitting- into
the Ornithology of the .WipJ^d jSptattes 1any»|1^u|ijssilu,ch }as -tye .had
personally* examined,j^fetdid not incluide^^spepjes„.€^h.er*.in our
Catalogue, qj^Synopsi^ - of, th e b^da>of tthis anid.it' i§.
but recently th a t Mr. Leadbeater’s . ^pppimen has enabled us- to
add
In elevating, our subgenus Qarrulus, to th e ra n k of?<a genus,*,we
merely conform to th e , d ic ta te s. of mature; « in , this.i'instance coinciding*
with Temminck, whpsqrintention; it. is, as he;unforms.,us, tp
include in .it the Jays and Magpies,« leaving the name (qfy0awus
for those*species which a re distinguished by thei^b^aok plumage,
and short and even t a i l s / b i r d s are on>5teye^y.jajonpjttnt- well
worthyvof this.' distinction, and WiP^ oh,eerfo|Iy. adopt an arrangement
which ,we deem^qcaspnant with.-nat,uyu*: ,b$£ wnvcanpnb,agr ©e
to the change of termina tion {Garr&Utijwhi,ch he has« a ttem p te ^ to
introduce, under the j-nrptenue th aMhisftenus is .more, extensive
th an the genus Garrulus of former autpjprs. T h a t genus was in fact
formed by Brissoh, and a fte rw a rd sn » Linne, united with Cojyvus.
TlaiSiflatter genus of Linnd&^rtainliy oditfained within; itself the
constituents' of several very natural gSteratj .but-, the additions
made to it by Gmelin and L athany||tender^d it a%ifSBei*^ehaos,
where eve.ry new species with a stoutm’i llto o k its place, in .defiance
of. the genuine characters. ^Tfoder^such circumstances the
task of the Ornithologist who professed to be guided b y philos%.
phical principles was, doubtless, hot merely to subdivide, but%>