. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . be fold in the markets *.Edwards mentions one (hot on Gibraltar Rock -9 it is alfo. met with,from the fouthern parts of RuJJia to the neighbourhood of theIrtiJJj-f. It makes its nefl in woods, mod frequen
. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . be fold in the markets *.Edwards mentions one (hot on Gibraltar Rock -9 it is alfo. met with,from the fouthern parts of RuJJia to the neighbourhood of theIrtiJJj-f. It makes its nefl in woods, mod frequently in Birch trees % ; neverlays more than five eggs, which are of a clear green, fprinkledwith innumerable dark fpecks §. It does not come to its colour till * Willughby. f ArEl. ZwL % Frifch. v . - § -Lafbam. the PLATE XXXIIL the feeond year; flies in troops in autumn, and is often feen intilled ground, with rooks and other birds, fearching for worms,fmall feeds, and roots ||; it feeds alfo on frogs and beetles f • By one author it is faid fometimes to make the neft in holes in theground, in one of which two eggs were found **; by another, it isobferved never to be km on the ground +f. It is remarkable for making a chattering noife; from which itis called by fome Garrulus Pennant, 1| Frifcb. f ** ftiji. Jes Oif. ;. 139. ff Die, Ruff. I p. 108, E 2 PLATE 34 jk *. PLATE XXXIV. LE GEAY BLANC,White Jay. Brif. av. 2, p. 51, jf„ In the defcription of Corvus Glandarius, Common Jay,we mentioned the fpecimen from which our prefent figure is taken;it was found in a neft with four other Jays of the common fort, andcan only be confidered as a variety. We have introduced it into this work, as a folitary example how farthe plumage of bir^s will fometimes vary from local circumftances. PLATE
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