. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 284 THE HUNTING CISSA. The Florida Jay, California Jay, Woodlawn Jay, Ultramarine Jay, Green Jay, Canada Jay, and Brown Jay are of comparatively recent discoveries. The Canada Jay {Perisoreus canadensis) is strikingly different from other species. We are apt to associate blue with the Jays. In this case there is a combmation of white and gray. This bird is found from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the northern portions. Audubon found it breeding, in Maine and New Brunswdck, and as far no
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 284 THE HUNTING CISSA. The Florida Jay, California Jay, Woodlawn Jay, Ultramarine Jay, Green Jay, Canada Jay, and Brown Jay are of comparatively recent discoveries. The Canada Jay {Perisoreus canadensis) is strikingly different from other species. We are apt to associate blue with the Jays. In this case there is a combmation of white and gray. This bird is found from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the northern portions. Audubon found it breeding, in Maine and New Brunswdck, and as far north as Labrador. When hard pressed, like other Jays, it preys upon the young of other birds. It seeks the most unfre- quented places, keeping almost constantly on the ground, yet some- times at twilight mounts to the toji of a small tree and twitters its notes. A European species of this bird is kno^vn un- der the scientilic tenn Perisoreus in/austus, or Car viis sihericus. It is illustrated with the nut - cracker on page 301. The Green Jay {XaHtJivra luxiwsa) inhabits the valley of the Rio Grande, in Texas, and southwaid. It is about the sizeot the preced- ing, and is nearly as peculiar as that species, its green and white being quite as singular. The Brown JxVY {PsilorJiiiius morio) is a much larger bird, and differs from all others in being of a rich umber-brown. It inhabits the Rio Grande HUNTINU CISfeA ? \i'S\'>^-^ Asia presents a most beautiful and interesting ex- ample of this group of birds in the Hunting Cissa, or Hunting Crow of India. This lovely bird is a native of Nepal, and is spread thr-oughout the southeastern part of the Himalayas, and in its own favored locality is far from scarce. Owing, however, to certain peculiarities in the coloring, here- after to be described, a specimen is very seldom obtained in iirst-rate condition, and never takes its place in our museums glowing in all the resplendent tints with which it is so liberally gifted. It is a
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