At 07:52 AM 9/11/97 -0700, Bob wrote:
>
>I just returned from a 10-day trip to southern France. While there, I
>purchased a framed print of some sort of jay, at a frame shop next to
>our hotel in Montpellier. It really caught my eye, but I now find
>that I can't ID it. I've checked in the NG Birds of NA, and in Lars
>Jonsson's Birds of Europe. Perhaps it was just a jay that existed
>only in the artist's imagination?....snip

I just went through Peterson's Birds of Britian and Europe and didn't find
anything that matched your description. There were several birds that were
similar like the Red-flanked blue tail, but as it's name implies, the blanks
are red so that won't match. The only Jays I show are the Jay and Siberian
Jay, both of whom are brownish.

No help at all, I'm afraid.

Peggi
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Aptos, CA (near Santa Cruz 122 W, 37 N)
USA
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