. The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857 . CORVUS CAURmUS 11; \ F 1-; R Exp &• ir^ufvevs „ 38^^ Sg-^ 41 ^ Is Rirdo PI 8 tp XXV. Bowen&C Lith &Col. Plulada. PICA HUDSONRA, ZOOLOGY. 21 never seen this bird feed on an
. The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857 . CORVUS CAURmUS 11; \ F 1-; R Exp &• ir^ufvevs „ 38^^ Sg-^ 41 ^ Is Rirdo PI 8 tp XXV. Bowen&C Lith &Col. Plulada. PICA HUDSONRA, ZOOLOGY. 21 never seen this bird feed on anything but seeds and berries, and it rarely descends to theground, never frequenting river banks or other places for dead fish and carrion, like the tops of the trees it may be seen extracting the seeds from cones; hanging headdownwards like the chickadees. Its cry is loud and harsh like the crows, and its flight rapidand steady, it having much larger wings than the jay. I have had no opportunity of observingits nest, which is probably built in high trees; perhaps burrowed in decayed wood, as with theEuropean species.—C. I have not myself obtained it on the Pacific side, but I was fortunate enough to get aspecimen on Milk river, Nebraska, about 200 miles east of the Rocky mountains. The onlybird of the kind I obtained I shot while it was flying past me, and as it was the only bird ofthe species I have seen I am unable to give any account of its habits.—S. Sub-Family GARRULINAE
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