Common Jay or Eurasian Jay with buff, blue and brown plumage. "It is a restless and very quarrelsome bird: makes a harsh, chattering and screaming noise; and is ever at variance not only with its own species, but with every other inhabitant of the forest.". Garrulus glandarius (Corvus glandarius). Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Edward Donovan's "The Natural History of British Birds" (1794-1819).