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Rh FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS.

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CROWS.—

Corvidae.

Bill. — Large, stout, and strong. Feet. — With prominent scales or shields.

At home

^ 48.

BLUE JAY.

11 J inches.

trees

in

or

on the

ground, Avalking or hopping. the-y ear-round birds.

Cyanodta

Blue above

cristata.

Avith black

and

All-

— Length,

Avhite

marks



^-v

V-^

underparts white and gray. One of our handsomest being conspicuous both for its color and for its Its voice is characterized both by graceful motions. melodious tunes and by abominable shrieks. The

birds,

Blue Jay strolls all day from tree to tree in company with others of his kind, robbing birds' nests, hunting insects, stealing chestnuts and acorns, and frequently alarming the woods with his shrieks, because a dangerHe also ous intruder has shown himself somewhere.

plunders cornfields and berries.

49.

JACK.

CANADA

JAY.

MEAT

Perisoreus canadensis.

Face and neck

Avhite



WHISKY

BIRD.

— Leng-th, 12 inches.

back of head black



otherwise