BIRDS OK NORTH AND MIDJ)LK AMERICA. 



807 



bill at noHtrily, 10-10.7 (10.4); tar.sus, 8ti.r>-40 (38.5); middle toe, 21- 



23.5 (21. 5). « 



Adult femalr.^U^x\)yi\\ (skins), 251-274.5 (2(34); wing, 112..>-11S 

 (114 5)- tail, 121.5-130.5 (127.5); exposed culmen, 23-27 (25); depth of 

 l.ill at nostrils. 1».5-11 (10); tarsus, 3.5-38.5 (36.5); middle toe, 20-22.5 



(21).'' 



Kiistern edge of Mexican plateau, from States of Vera Cruz and 

 Puel)la to Nuevo Leon (Monterey) and soutlnM-n Taniaulipas (Victoria, 

 Alta Mira, etc.). 



I'iica-] ddoronota, part, \Va(J1.ek, Isis, LS29, 7o() (.lescriptiun ,,t suppoHcl young 



male; Mexico). 

 Garrulusluxuoms'L^iiiios, Kev. ZnoL, Apr., 1839, 100 (Mexico). 

 Cmnoeorax luxuosus Du Bus, Esquis. Orn., iv, 1848, pi. 18.— Sclatek, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1856, 300 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 



1864, 175 (Valley of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 144 (Mexico).— Schle- 



GEL, ]Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 53, part (Mexico). 

 {Ciianocoraxl luxm-'^ns Sclater and Salvin, Noni. Av. Neotr., 1873, 39, part 



(Mexico). 

 IXanthottra'] luxmmi!^ Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 380 (Mexico). - 

 Xanthoura luxuosa Sumichrast, :SIeni. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 554 (hot and 



temp, regions Vera Cruz).--FERRARi-PEKEZ, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 



153 (Jalapa).—(?) Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1891, 444 (Mexico).— 



Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 30 (Jalapa). 

 Xlanthoum] luxuosa Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 358, part. 

 Xanthura luxuosa Sharpe, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 132, part (Jalapa).— 



Sclater, Ibis, 1879, 88, part (crit.).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ani., 



Aves, i, 1887, 502, part (Guanajuato; Valley of Mexico; Perote, Puebla; 



Cordova and Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 

 ICyanocoraa; yncas.] Var. S. luxuosa Dubois, Bull. Ac. Roy. Belg., 2'-- scr., 



xxxviii, 1874, 494, part (Mexico). 

 [Cijanurus'] luxuoms Gray , Hand-list, ii, 1870, 5, no. 6119 (Mexico). 

 Cyanocitla luxuosa Duges, La Naturaleza, i, 1869, 139 (Guanajuato). 



« Eight specimens. 

 ''Seven specimens. 



Specimens from nortlienv and southern extremes of the range 

 respectively, as follows: 



of this form average, 



The specimens from Nuevo I^on are practically identical with lliose from Vera 

 Cruz and I'uohla in coloration, in this respect differing m>''''' "''viously fn.nt Rio 

 Grande Valley examples (A', liixiuisti yhnicesccns). 



