CALOCITTA. 509 
Acapulco (A. H. Markham*), San Juan del Rio (Rébouch 8), Chietla State of 
Puebla (Perez 1°), Oaxaca (Boucard 3), Juchitan, Tehuantepec city (Sumichrast*) ; 
GuaTEeMALA (Velasquez '*), hot districts of both sides of the cordillera 2, Savana 
Grande, Escuintla, Retalhuleu, Rio Motagua below Chol, Chuacus, Zacapa (O. S. 
& I. D. G.); Honpuras, Tigre I., Comayagua (Taylor 16); Nicaragua (Sailé §), 
Omotepé I. (Nutting ®) ; Costa Rica (Carmiol *). 
Swainson founded his description of this species on specimens obtained by Bullock 
at Temiscaltepec, and Wagler’s types of his Pica bullocki came from the same source, 
the two names appearing nearly at the same date. Temminck’s name (G4. gubernatriz) 
is obviously a synonym of the same bird. The range of this species is somewhat limited 
in Mexico, being chiefly restricted to the hot region of the Pacific side of the cordillera 
from the State of Colima southwards to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec ; it also occurs in 
the State of Puebla, but the name is absent from Sumichrast’s list of the birds of Vera 
Cruz. This writer states that it is one of the most widely-distributed of the birds of 
Tehuantepec, where it makes its presence known in the obtrusive and noisy way so 
common to all Jays, and especially to members of this genus. 
As in Mexico, so in Guatemala, this Jay is only found in the hotter parts, occurring 
in greatest abundance in the forest-country bordering on the Pacific, up to an elevation 
of about 2500 feet. To travellers in these districts it is exceedingly familiar, as it often 
keeps pace with them, crossing and recrossing the road in flocks, all the time keeping 
up discordant cries; it will thus follow a party sometimes for a mile or more, and then, 
as if satisfied with this performance, abruptly disappear. The only other portion of 
Guatemala in which we noticed this bird was the valley of the Motagua river, where 
it occurs from the bridge which crosses the river between Vuelta Grande and Chol and 
the vicinity of Gualan below the plain of Zacapa; it occurs also in the valleys opening 
into the Motagua, such as that in which the village of Chuacus is situated. All this 
country is occupied by thin scrubby forest, largely composed of Mimosee, and it is woods 
of this description rather than denser forests that this bird frequents. It is not found 
about Salama or any other portion of the Department of Vera Paz, nor does it occur 
in Yucatan. In Honduras Mr. Taylor says it is plentiful in Tigre Island in the Gulf 
of Fonseca and thence inland to the foot of the mountains north of the plain of 
Comayagua. From Costa Rica we have a single male specimen sent us by Carmiol, 
without the precise locality being indicated. 
Mexican specimens appear to be rather greyer as a rule in the tint of their upper 
plumage than those from further south, which are of a bluer shade; the latter, too, 
often have a blue tint on the throat. These differences are but slight and somewhat 
anconstant. 
