AcrostiQuiz #7 by BringMoreLegos

Question 1

"Who could imagine that a form so graceful, arrayed by nature in a garb so resplendent, should harbour so much mischief — that selfishness, duplicity, and malice should form the moral accompaniments of so much physical perfection! Yet so it is, and how like beings of a much higher order are these gay deceivers!"

WHAT CREATURE, Cyanocitta cristata, is the subject of this passage?