. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. COR VIBj^ — GA Eli ULINJE: J A YS. 421 as much of a rascal. The nest is pkiced in thick shrubbery, as big as a bushel, bristling witli a chevaux-de-frise outside
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. COR VIBj^ — GA Eli ULINJE: J A YS. 421 as much of a rascal. The nest is pkiced in thick shrubbery, as big as a bushel, bristling witli a chevaux-de-frise outside, with a lateral covered way leading to the nest within. Eggs fi-9, to long by to broad, pale drab, dotted, dashed, and blotched with [nu'iilish- brown. 348. P. nut'taUi. (To Thos. Nuttall.) Yellow-billed Magpie. Bill and Inire space alicmt eye yellow. Otherwise, precisely like the last, of which it is a perpetuated accident! The European magpie sometimes shows the same thing, and in some other species, hke P. i/wrio, the hill is indifferently black or yellow. California, common. 111. CYANOCIT'TA. (Gr. Kvavos, kuanos, blue; ki'tto, kitta, a. jay.) Crested Blue Jays. Cmispicuously crested; wings and tail blue, black-barred; bill and feet black. Length 11,00- ; wing or tail Nostrils large, sulicircular, but ccjncealed. Wings and tail of equal lengths, bfjth rounded. Hind claw large, equalling or exceeding its digit in length. There are two species of this beautiful genus, one light blue and white. Eastern, standing (piite alone ; the other dusky-bodied. Western, running into several varieties. Analysis of Sp(-cif;s and Varieties. Purplish-blue, whitening below, with a black collar crisfata .349 Sooty-brownish or -blackish, bluing on body behind, wings and tail; the latter black-barred. Sooty-blackish ; little if any blue on forehead; none about eye; wing-coverts unbarred . stei/eri .35it Sooty-blackish; but blue on forehead and above eye; win
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