Zealand
They number about two hundred species, of which twentyfive are found in North America. Our Crows and Jays inhabit wooded regions, and, although migratory to a limited extent, are resident throughout the year, except at the northern limits of their range. They are omnivorous feeders, taking fruits, seeds, insects, eggs, nestlings, etc. CROWS, JAYS, ETC.
Crows and Jays exhibit marked traits of character and are possessed of unusual intelligence. Some systematists place them at the top of the Avian tree, and, if their mental development be taken into consideration, they have undoubted claims to this high rank. A. Plumage black.
KEY TO THE SPECIES. a. Wing about 15.00; bill over 2.50. b. Wing about 13.00; bill about 2.00. c. Wing about 11.00; bill about 1.50.
B. Plumage bluish or grayish. 486a. RAVEN. 488. AM. CROW. 488a. FLORIDA CROW. 490. FISH CROW. a. Back blue; tail tipped with white; a black breast-patch. 477. BLUE JAY. 477a. FLORIDA BLUE JAY. b. Back bluish gray; tail not tipped with white; throat and breast indistinctly streaked with whitish. 479. FLORIDA JAY. c. Back gray; back of head and nape blackish; forehead whitish. 484. CANADA JAY. 484c. LABRADOR JAY. 477. Cyanocitta cristata (Linn.). BLUE JAY. (See Fig. 44, a.) Ad.-Upper parts grayish blue; under parts dusky whitish, whiter on the throat and belly; forehead, and a band passing across the back of the head down the sides of the neck and across the breast, black; head crested; exposed surface of wings blue, the greater wing-coverts and secondaries barred with black and tipped with white; tail blue, all but the outer feathers barred with black, and all but the middle pair broadly tipped with white, this white tip rarely less than 1.00 in width on the outer feather. L., 11.74; W., 5·14; T., 5-19; B., 1.04.