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Perisoreus

The genus Perisoreus is a very small genus of Jays from the Boreal regions of North America and Eurasia from Scandinavia to the Asian seaboard. An isolated species also occours in north-western Szechuan province of China. They belong to the Passerine order of birds in the family Corvidae.

Two species are represented below:

Grey Jay[?] (Perisoreus canadensis)
Siberian Jay[?] (Perisoreus infaustus)

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