BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 323 



C[7janolyca'\ om«/a Gabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Oct., 1851, 223 (Mexico). 



Cyanolyca ornata Salvin and (todman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 499.— 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, .SO (Jalapa).— Lantz, Trans. 

 Kans. Ac. Sci. for 189«>-97 (1899), 222 (Coatepec, Vera Cruz). 



[Cyammis] ornahts Gray, Hand-list, ii. 1870, 4, no. fi099 (Mexico). 



[OianociUa'\ cyanlcoUis LicnTENSTKiN, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 9 (Mex- 

 ico; nomen nudum!). 



Cyanohjca milraia Ridgway, Auk, xvi, July, 1899, 255 (to replace preoccupied 

 name ornata). 



CYANOLYCA CUCULLATA (Ridgway). 

 COSTA RICAN AZURE-HOODED JAY. 



Similar to C. mltra fa, hut slightly .siiiitllci-. l)lii(' liood without any 

 lateral white marj^iii, and hindnock deeper (les.s brownish) black. 



Aduif ///(/A .—Length (skins), i>50-^()(» (254); wing, ll(i-li>0 (118); 

 tail, ll>2.r)-129 (127.1); exposed eulraen, 2-1-27.5 (2(il); depth of bill 

 at nostrils. 12-12.5 (12.2): tarsus, 3H-89 (37.5); middle toe, 21-21.5 

 (21.4)." 



Eastern Costa Rica (Navarro, P]l Zarcero de AlajueJa. Rio Sucio, 

 etc.); Veragua (Chitra); Chiriqiii (Volcan de Chiri<iui. T.fMioft.): Isth- 

 mus of Panama. 



Cyanocitta ornata {not Pica ornata Lesson) Salvin, Ibis, 1870, 114 (Costa Rica). — 



Zeledon, Cat. Aves do Costa Rica, 1882, 10. 

 [Cyanorittal or?jato Sclater and Salvin, Xoni. .\v. Neotr., lS7o, :W, j)art (Costa 



Rica). 

 Cyanocorax ornatv.'^ (not of Gray) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 127, 



part (Veragua). 

 Ojanocora.r mmllatus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Apr. 20, 1885, 23 



(Navarro, e. Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. 



Costa Rica, i, 1887, 118 (El Zarcero de .\lajuela and Rio Su(Mo. o. Costa 



Rica). 

 Cyanolyca curnUata Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Aves, i, Apr., 1887, 



500 (Rio Sucio and Navarro, e. Costa Rica; Isthnuis of Panama).— Bangs, 



Proc. New Engl. Zo:;l. Club, iii, 1902, 57 (Volcan dc <'bifi.|ui, 7,000 ft.). 



Genus APHELOCOMA Cabanis. 



Aphelocomaf* Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Oct., 1851, 221, footnote. (Type, Gar- 

 rulus califonilciis Vigors.) 



Medium-sized or rather small jays, without any crest, and with the 

 prevailing color uniform ])lue or bhu^ and grav. 



Xt(hpc(ttlon. — Nest in Im.shes, small trees, or vines, opi-n above, 

 composed of dry twigs, etc.. lined with liner materials. Eggs 3-r». 

 ))ale greeni.sh or bluish speckled with brown, etc. (immaculate greenish 

 blue in .1. siehri'll artsonce.) 



Range. — Western United States to highlands <>f ( Juatemalu: Floiida 

 (one species). (About nine species.) 



"Four specimens; three from Volcan dc (^hiriqui (Caribbean slope), one from 

 Chitra, prov. Code, Panama. 



'''•Von rf0eAr)5, Schlicht, und Komi.tf, Haupthaar." 



