Identifier: birdsofnewenglan00sam (find matches)
Title: The birds of New Englandand adjacent states: containing descriptions of the birds of New England ... together with a history of their habitats ... ; with illustrations of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward Augustus, 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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law large, longer thanits digit. The culmen is straight to near the tip, where it is gentlj decurved; the gonys isconvex at the base, then straight and ascending; the bill has a very slight notch atthe tip; the nostrils are large, nearly circular, or slightly elliptical; the commissureis straight at the base, then bending down slightly near the tip; the legs present nospecial peculiarities; the crest on the head consists of a number of elongated, narrow,lanceolate occipital feathers. CYANURUS CEISTATUS. — Swainson. The Blue Jay, Corvus cristatus, Linnaeus. Syst. Nat., I. (10th ed., 1758) 106. Wils. Am. Orn.,I. (1808) 2. Aud. Orn. Biog., IL (1834) 11; V. (1839) 475. Cyanurus cristatus, Swainson. F. Bor. Am., II. (1831) App. 495. Description.Crest about one-third longer than the bill; tail much graduated; general colorabove, light purplish-b^ue; wings and tail feathers ultramarine-blue; the secondariesand tertials, the greater wing coverts, and the exposed surface of the tail, sharply
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lii.Lli Jay, Cytinuni crislala. Swaiuson. THE BLUE JAY. 365 banded with black, and broadly tipped with white, except on the central tail feathers;beneath white; tinged with purplish-blue on the throat, and with bluish-bro\vnon the sides; a black crescent on the forepart of the breast, the horns passing for-ward and connecting with a half-collar on the back of the neck; a narrow frontalline and loral region black; feathers on the base of the bill blue, like the crown.Female rather duller in color, and a little smaller. Length, twelve and twenty-five one-hundredths inches; wing, five and sixty-fiveone-hundredths inches; tail, five and seventy-five one-hundredths inches. This beautiful and well-known bird is abundantly dis-tributed throughout New England. It is less common inthe northern than in the southern districts, but is often seenthere, not in company with the Canada Jay, however. Its food is more varied than that of almost any otherbird that we have. In winter, the berries of the

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