. 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. COB VIB2E — GABB ULINjE : J A YS. 421 348. Ill, as much of a rascal. The nest is placed in thick shrubbery, as big as a bushel, bristling with a ehevaux-de-frise outsi
. 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. COB VIB2E — GABB ULINjE : J A YS. 421 348. Ill, as much of a rascal. The nest is placed in thick shrubbery, as big as a bushel, bristling with a ehevaux-de-frise outside, with a lateral covered way leading to the nest within. Eggs 6-9, to long by to broad, pale drab, dotted, dashed, and blotched with purplisli- brown. P. nut'calli. (To Thos. Nuttall.) Yellow-billed Magpie. Bill and bare space about 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, like P. morio, the bill is indifferently black or yellow. California, common. CYANOCIT'TA. (Grf^Kvavos, kuanos, blue; kitto, Jdtta, a jay.) Crested Blub Jays. Conspicuously crested; wings and tail blue, black-ban-ed; bill and feet black. Length ; wing or tail Nostrils large, subcircular, but concealed. Wings and tail of equal lengths, both 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 quite alone ; the other dusky-bodied, Western, running into several varieties. 349. Analysis of Species and Varieties. Purplish-bine, whitening below, with a black collar . . 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-eoverts unbarred Sooty-blackish; but blue on forehead and above eye; wing-coverts unbarred . annectens Sooty-brown
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