354 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CYANOCITTA STELLERI CARLOTTiE Osgood. 

 OSGOOD'S JAY. 



Similar to C s. stelleri, but larger and decidedly darker, the blue 

 of a more violet hue (dull cyanine or approaching hyacinth blue on 

 secondaries and rectrices, the rump, upper tail-coverts and posterior 

 under parts dull antwerp blue), the back and foreneck slightly sooty 

 slate-black (decidedly less brown than in O. s. stelleri). 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 310-322 (317.2) wing, 155.5-161 

 166.2); exposed culmen, 29-32 (30.4); tarsus, 46.5-49.5 (48); middle 

 toe, 26-28 (27.1).« 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 324; wing, 162; tail, 152.5; exposed 

 culmen, 30.5; tarsus, 48; middle toe, 28.* 



Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia; also southern portion 

 (at least) of Prince of Wales Island (Howkan) . 



Cyanocitta stelleri carlottw, Osgood, North Am. Fauna, no. 21, Sept., 1901, 46 

 (Cumshewa Inlet, Moresby I., Queen Charlotte group, British Columbia; 

 coll. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. ). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, xix, 1902, 321 (Check List no., 478r?) .—Fisher (W. K.), Condor, iv, 

 1902, 41, 42, 43 (crit.; geog. range). 



CYANOCITTA STELLERI CARBONACEA Grinnell. 

 GRINNELL'S JAY. 



Similar to C. s. stelleri, but paler throughout, and averaging slightly 

 smaller; color of head very nearly as in C. s. stelleri., but averaging 

 browner or more sooty, the forehead always conspicuously streaked 

 with blue, and throat more extensivel}^ or uniformly pale grayish; 

 back and foreneck much paler, slaty l)rown or brownish slate, instead 

 of deep sooty; blue of rump, upper tail-coverts, and under parts of 

 body light dull cerulean or verditer blue, advancing more over chest, 

 where more abruptly defined against the sooty or brownish slate color 

 of foreneck. 



Adult w,«Ze.— Length (skins), 275-317 (280.8); wing, 140.5-158 

 (150.5); tail, 134-146 (140); exposed culmen, 27-31.5 (29.1); tarsus, 

 42-46 (44.5); middle toe, 22.5-25 (23.8).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 254-290 (276); wing, 136-147 (143); 

 tail, 125-138 (131); exposed culmen. 25-29.5 (27.7); tarsus. 39-45 

 (42.7); middle toe, 22-25 (23.7).'^ 



Coast district of California and Oregon, from Monterey County, 

 California, to the Columbia Kiver.*^ 



(' F(jur specimens, from Skidegate and Cumshewa Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands. 



'' One specimen, from Howkan, Prince of Wales Island. 



'■ Nine specimens. 



'^Ten specimens. 



"^ Intergrading with C. .s. frontalis in tlie district between Monterey County and 

 the San Bernardino Mountains, and from the eastern slope of the northern Coast 

 Range to Trinity Mountains and INIount Shasta; intergrading with C. s. stelleri in the 

 district l>etween the lower Columbia River and Pnget Sound. 



