FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS.
24
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
