. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . e, and maystraggle into Massachusetts ; though Mr. Allen has omitted it fromhis list. On the Pacific coast it is replaced by ,C caurinus. All Crows are more or less fish-eaters, and in some localities fishforms their staple diet. On the shores of Cape Breton, near thecoal districts, the fish-eating Crows are separated by the nativesfrom the common sort. It is said that the flight and voice of thesebirds can be readily distinguished. Some working atLepreaux, in New Brunswick, who were familiar with the fish-eating Crows
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . e, and maystraggle into Massachusetts ; though Mr. Allen has omitted it fromhis list. On the Pacific coast it is replaced by ,C caurinus. All Crows are more or less fish-eaters, and in some localities fishforms their staple diet. On the shores of Cape Breton, near thecoal districts, the fish-eating Crows are separated by the nativesfrom the common sort. It is said that the flight and voice of thesebirds can be readily distinguished. Some working atLepreaux, in New Brunswick, who were familiar with the fish-eating Crows of Cape Breton, drew my attention to a flock ofapparently small and peculiar-voiced Crows gleaning along theshores ; but though easily trapped by a fish bait, they proved tobe nothinsf more than rather small common Crows. Note. — The American Magpie {Pica pica luidsonica^ is aWestern and Northwestern bird, and occurs as a straggler onlyeast of the Mississippi. It has been taken in Michigan, northernIllinois, and western Ontario; also at Chambly, near BLL^E JAY. CyANOCITTA CRISIATA. Char. Above, purplish blue; below, pale purplish gray, lighter onthroat and tail-coverts ; wings and tail bright blue barred with black ; wing-coverts, secondaries, and most of tail-feathers broadly tipped with conspicuously crested; tail wedge-shai)ed. Length ii to i2/< inches. Nest. In a small conifer, about 20 feet from the ground, situated indeep forest or near a settlement; roughly but firmly constructed of twigsand roots, and lined with fine roots Eggs. 4-5; pale olive or buff, spotted with yellowish brown; i 10X 0^5. This elegant and common species is met with in the interior,from the remote northwestern regions near Peace River, in the54th to the 56th degree, Lake Winnipeg in the 49th degree,the eastern steppes of the Rocky Mountains, and southwest-ward to the banks of the Arkansas : also along the Atlanticregions from the confines of Newfoundland to the peninsula o
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