. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. corvida:. 235. THE JAY. glandarius (Linnaeus). The Jay is less abundant than formerly, owing chiefly to the dis- like entertained for it on account of its egg-stealing proclivities, but partly to the esteem in which its blue wing-feathers are held for making artificial flies. Being, however, an inhabitant of woodlands, and a wary as well as a wandering bird, it manages to hold its own, and is still tolerably common throughout England and Wales. Flocks from the Continent occasionally visit our east coast in autumn. In Scotland the Jay i
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. corvida:. 235. THE JAY. glandarius (Linnaeus). The Jay is less abundant than formerly, owing chiefly to the dis- like entertained for it on account of its egg-stealing proclivities, but partly to the esteem in which its blue wing-feathers are held for making artificial flies. Being, however, an inhabitant of woodlands, and a wary as well as a wandering bird, it manages to hold its own, and is still tolerably common throughout England and Wales. Flocks from the Continent occasionally visit our east coast in autumn. In Scotland the Jay is very local, and its numbers have decreased, though its range has extended northward with the spread of plantations, and now reaches to Glengarry, Inverness-shire. Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Buckley have not found it in Sutherland or Caithness; it is not recorded from the Outer Hebrides or the Orkneys; and Saxby is the sole asseverator of its occurrence in the Shetlands. In Ireland it is very local, and almost confined to the eastern and southern districts. South of the Arctic circle in Scandinavia, and of about 63° N. lat. in Russia as far east as the valley of the Volga, the Jay is found through-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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