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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Corvidae.

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Examples

  • Muscicapa flammea was seen at 7,000 feet in pine forests with several Sittae: in these forests and about Bharawul, only one Garrulus was heard, and few woodpigeons were seen.

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • These are known to science as the Himalayan jay (_Garrulus bispecularis_) and the black-throated jay (_G. lanceolatus_).

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • It has been both asserted and denied that the American cuckoo occasionally lays her eggs in other birds’ nests; but I have lately heard from Dr. Merrell, of Iowa, that he once found in Illinois a young cuckoo together with a young jay in the nest of a Blue jay (Garrulus cristatus); and as both were nearly full feathered, there could be no mistake in their identification.

    VIII. Instinct. Special Instincts 1909

  • _Garrulus lanceolatus_, only larger and much deeper.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • Garrulus leucotis, _Hume, Hume, Cat. _ no. 669 bis.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • The markings vary a good deal: in some they are more speckly, in others more streaky, but taking them as a whole they are intermediate between those of _Dendrocitta_ and those of _Garrulus_, neither so bold and streaky as the former, nor so speckly as the latter.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • Northern Europe is inhabited by the variable hare (Lepus variabilis); the common jay (Garrulus glandarius) inhabiting all Europe, while another species (Garrulus Brandti) is found all across Asia from the

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Three large slate-colored birds of the jay genus (Garrulus Canadensis), the Canada-jay, moose-bird, meat-bird, or what not, came flitting silently and by degrees toward me, and hopped down the limbs inquisitively to within seven or eight feet.

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • Eurasian jays Garrulus glandarius overcome their current desires to anticipate two distinct future needs and plan for them appropriately, Biology Letters Deadly dinosaurs

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Garrulus glandarius, to quote its splendid Latin name, too much to persecute it further.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

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