Oregon Jay
485. Perisoreus obscurus. 11 inches.
Like the last in every way, but with a blacker head, forehead white.
American Raven
486. Corvus corax sinuatus. 24 inches.
This is a large edition of the Crow, and is found west of the Rockies from British Columbia southward. Their plumage is a bluish black, with lengthened and stiffened feathers on the neck. Their general habits are much the same as the Crow. Their food consists principally of carrion, fish, and eggs and young of smaller birds. They nest on the high cliffs in almost inaccessible places, building large nests of sticks, in which they deposit four eggs of a pale greenish white, spotted and blotched with shades of brown and drab (1.95 × 1.25).