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Canada Jay
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see jay.
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Jay - common name for a number of birds of the family Corvidae found in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
THE CANADA JAY.
[Gray Jay.]
GARRULUS CANADENSIS, Linn.
[Perisoreus canadensis.] ...
contains two species - one the Lanius infaustus of Linnaeus and the Siberian jay of English writers, which ranges throughout the pine-forests of the north of Europe and Asia, and the second the Corvus canadensis of the same author, or Canada jay, ...
of the crow family found in Europe, Asia and of the Americas. In America the best known is the Blue Jay and the Canada jay. The Canada jay is around 12 in. long, with and gray plumage, and a white throat and for head and black nape; it has no crest.
 See also: Jay, Blue Jay, Moose, Crow, Roach
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