Male, 111/4, 14.
Confined to the Floridas. Not very common. Resident.
Corvus floridanus, Bonap. Syn. p. 58.
Florida Jay, Garrulus floridanus, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. ii. p.
Florida Jay, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 230.
Florida Jay, Corvus floridanus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 444.
234. 5. Garrulus Canadensis, Linn. Canada Jay.
Plate CVII. Male and Female. Plate CCCCXXX. Fig. 3. Young.
Upper parts dull leaden-grey; lower dull yellowish-white; forehead yellowish-white; hind part of the head and neck greyish-black; throat and band passing round the neck, greyish-white; secondary quills and tail-feathers narrowly tipped with white. Young very dull slate-colour, paler on the abdomen, on the head blackish, wings and tail as in the adult, their tips of a duller white.
Male, 11, 15.
Rare, and only in winter, from Pennsylvania to New York. More abundant in Massachusetts. Common from Maine northward to the Fur Countries. Columbia River.
Canada Jay, Corvus canadensis, Wils. Amer. Ornith. v. iii. p. 33.
Corvus canadensis, Bonap. Syn. p. 58.
Garrulus canadensis, Whisky Jack, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 295.
Garrulus brachyurus, Short-billed Jay, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 296. Young.
Garrulus canadensis, Canada Jay, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 232.
Short-billed Jay. Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 599.
Canada Jay, Corvus canadensis. Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 58; v. v. p. 208.