BTRDR OF NORTH AND MIDDI-K AMKRTCA. 327 



(Jarnilit.^ ciiridesce ns \iisihhoT, Nouv. Diet. (i'Hi.st. Nat., xii. IS17. 4S0 (••Ken- 

 tucky" ).— Ord, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1818, 347. 



P[rco] cwrulescens W AGhER, Syst. Av., 1827, Pica, up. 11. 



Corvus florklatms Bonapakte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ii, 1828, 58 (based on 

 Comis flondanua, pica glandaria minor, the Ultle jay of Florida, Bartram, 

 Travels, p. 290.).— Nuttall, Man. Orn. T^ H. and Can., i, 1832, 2.30.— 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 444, pi. 87. 



Gan'uJus floridanns Bonaparte, Am. Orn., ii, 1828, 59, pi. 14, fig. 1. — Audubon, 

 Synopsis, 1839, 154; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 118, pi. 233.— Schlegel, 

 Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 64, part (Florida). 



Cyanurus floridanus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 495. 



[Cyanurns] floridanus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 4, no. 6096. 



Cyanocovax floridanus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 27. 



[Cyanoattal floridanus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 377. 



Cyanocitla floridana Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 586; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 439.— Taylor, Ibis, 1862, 129.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 360.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 298, excl. syn. part 

 (Dummitts and Blue Springs, e. Florida). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 285, pi. 40, fig. 4.— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1875, 346 (nomencl.).— Maynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 164. 



A[phelocoin((] floridana Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Oct., 1851, 221, footnote. — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2ded., 1884,423.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, .355. 



lAphelocoma'] floridana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 166. 



Aphelocoma floridana Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 236; 2ded., 1882, no. 354. — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 117. — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 291. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 479.— Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 319 (Gulf coast Florida, north of Punta Rassa) .— 

 Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 370, pi. 5, fig. 13 (egg). — Nehk- 

 ling. Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 324. 



\_Aphelocoma floridana var. woodhousci] a. flnndana Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 219 

 (synonomy). 



APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA CALIFORNICA (Vigors). 

 CALIFORNIA JAY. 



Similar to ^1. q/anea, ))iit cntirt' piicuin iiiiit'orm l)lue (deeper blue 

 than in A. cyanea), margined laterally by ii superciliary line of white 

 streaks; back browner and rather darker gray; chin, throat, and chest 

 purer white; sides and flaid<s paler (dull white instead of distinctly 

 grayish). 



Adults {sexes alike). — Entire pileum, hindneck and sides of neck 

 uniform dull cobalt l)lue: suborbital, malar, and auricular regions 

 similar t)ut darker. es2:)ecially the last, which is sometimi'scpiite tlusky; 

 back brownish mouse gray or drab-gray; scapulars and rump more 

 bluish gray: wings, tail, and up])er tail-coverts rather dull azure blue; 

 chin, throat, and median portion of chest white, the last more or less 

 streaked with blue, especially the posterior portion, where the feathers 

 are mainly white with blue (Mlges; sides of chest uniform blue; breast 

 very pale drab-gray fading into dull white on other under parts, the 

 anal region and shoiterundiM- tail-coverts pure white, the longer under 



