Perching' Birds Marked With Blue 



479. Florida Jay (Aphelocoma cyanea). L. 11.5. 



Ads. Foreback clay-color or pale brownish gray; head, 

 nape, wings, tail, sides of throat and faint breast- 

 streaks blue; a grayish line over eye; throat gray; 

 belly dingier; forehead usually hoary. Notes. Harsh 

 and unmusical calls. 



Range. — Florida; confined mostly to coast of the middle portions of 

 the peninsula. 



480. Woodhouse Jay { Aphelocoma woodhousei). L. 

 12; W. 5. Ads. Back grayish or brownish bine, usual- 

 ly not sharply defined from nape; crown, nape, wings 

 and tail blue; throat gray; belly dingier; breast streaked 

 with blue; under tail-coverts blue; a narrow white line 

 over eye. Resembles No. 479, but is larger, back 

 bluer, forehead not hoary; line over eye sharper. 



Range. — Western United States (chiefly Great Basin region), from 

 northern Mexico north to southeastern Oregon and southern Wyoming; 

 east to western Texas and Colorado; west to California, east of the 

 Sierras. 



480.1. Blue-eared Jay (Aphelocoma cyanotis). Re- 

 sembling No. 480, but larger; W. 5. 5; under tail-cov- 

 erts white; back slaty-gray tinged with blue; white line 

 over eye less evident. 



Range. — "Mexican tableland north casually to Sutton County, 

 Texas." (Bailey.) 



480.2. Texan Jay (Aphelocoma texand). Similar \o. 

 No. 480.1, but white line over eye more distinct, below 

 paler and browner gray, lower throat and chest with 

 obsolete grayish streaks instead of blue streak >. 

 Differs from No. 480 in having pure white under tail 

 coverts and in other respects. (Ridgw.) 



Range. — "Southeastern Texas, from Concho and Kerr Counties 

 west to the Davis Mountains." (Bailey.) 



48 1. California Jay {Aphelocoma californica). Sim- 

 ilar to No. 480, but back brown; usually sharply de- 

 fined from nape; blue areas brighter, throat and bellv 

 whiter; breast less streaked with blue. Notes. Varied, 

 usual call a harsh, metallic squawking. 



Range. — Pacific coast from northern Lower California, north to 

 southern Wahington, east, in California, to the Sierra Nevada. 



48 la. Xantus Jay (A. c. Inpoleuca). Similar to No. 

 481, but blue areas somewhat lighter, underparts de- 

 cidedly whiter. 



Range. — Lower California, north to Lat. 28 . 



48 1b. Belding Jay {A. c. obscura). Similar to No. 

 481, but darker and with smaller teet; W. 4.7. (An- 

 thony.) 



Range. — San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California. 



48 1.1. Santa Cruz Jay {Aphelocoma insularis). 



Similar to No. 481, but larger; W. 5.6; blue area^ 

 much deeper, back much darker, grayish sooty 

 tinged with blue. 



Range. — Santa Cruz Island, California. 



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