500 CORVIDA. 
This species is restricted to Southern Mexico and Guatemala. Sunjiichrast says that 
it is found in the temperate region of Vera Cruz, where it prefers the pine-woods 
rather than the denser forests that cover the more elevated portions of that region; it 
occurs also in the State of Puebla. In Guatemala, so far as we know, it only occurs in 
Alta Vera Paz, in the neighbourhood of Coban, and the country lying in the direction 
of Cahabon. It is one of the birds frequently met with in collections from that district. 
In the original catalogue of the birds of Guatemala it is stated to occur in Honduras 8, 
but on what authority we are now unable to say. The bird found in Costa Rica, as 
will be seen below, is slightly different. 
6. Cyanolyca cucullata. 
Cyanocorax cucullatus, Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 237. 
Cyanocitta ornata, Salv. Ibis, 1870, p. 114. 
Preecedenti persimilis, sed paullo minor, plaga capitali caerulea haud albo marginata, ut videtur, distinguenda. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Carmiol *), Rio Sucio, Navarro (Zeledon ),. Von am 6  Venagua (fhe S ) 
We have long possessed specimens of this bird both from Costa Rica and from the State 
of Panama, but we hesitated to describe this southern form of C. ornata as a distinct 
species, the differential characters being so slight, and Mr. Sharpe treated them in the 
same way. Mr. Ridgway, however, has recently separated the Costa-Rican bird as 
C. cucullatus', giving characters which we are able to recognize; we therefore employ 
his name. The first Costa-Rican specimen that came under our notice was obtained by 
Carmiol in 1869, and this bird was referred to Cyanocitta ornata*?; our examples from 
the State of Panama were acquired at a later date. The examples described by 
Mr. Ridgway were collected in Costa Rica by J. Cooper, and were obtained on the 
Atlantic slope of the mountains—at Rio Sucio at an altitude of 800 feet above the sea, 
and at Navarro, at an altitude of 3500 feet. The specimens from the State of Panama 
were doubtless obtained from the western or Pacific side. 
e. Vertex ceruleus, linea sincipitali alba. 
7. Cyanolyca pumilo. 
Cyanocorax nanus ?, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 122, t. 337. 
Cyanocorax pumilo, Strick]. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 122, t.383?; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 127’. 
Cyanocitta pumilo, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 378%; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 21°; Salv. Cat. Strick. 
Coll. p. 292°. 
Saturate azurea; alis extus et cauda dorso concoloribus; capite summo et cervice undique cyanescentibus; gula 
nigra ; fronte et capitis lateribus quoque nigris, ad pileum stricte albo marginatis; rostro et pedibus nigris. 
Long. tota 10-0, ale 4-6, caudse 5-0, rostri a rictu 0°7, tarsi 08. (Descr. maris ex Volean de Fuego, Guate- 
mala. Mus. nostr.) 
Av. juv. lineola capitis alba caret. 
Hab. Guatemata* (Constancia 125), Calderas, Volcan de Fuego, Sierra de las Nubes, 
San Pedro Carcha (0. S. & F. D. G.). 
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