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light cerulean or turquoise blue, the .secondaries and tail, however, 

 nearly as deep blue as in G. s. stelleri. Young much paler and 

 browner than that of C. s. stelleri. 



Adult m«?^^— Length (skins), 284.5-297 (291); wing, 144-149.5 

 (146.5); tail, 133.5-139.5(136); exposed culmen, 27.5-30.5 (29.5); depth 

 of bill at nostrils, 9.5-10 (9.9); tarsus, 41-44.5 (42); middle toe, 23-25 

 (24). « 



Adult female.— \j^wgi\i (skins), 256-292(284); wing, 136-145 (140.5); 

 exposed culmen, 25.5-27.5 (26); depth of bill at nostrils, 8.5-9 (8.9); 

 tarsus, 38-41 (40.5); middle toe, 23-23.5 (23.1).* 



Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino ranges and mountains of northern 

 Lower California (San Pedro Martir Mountains). (Intergrading with 

 C. s. carhonata in southern portion of southern Coast Range and on 

 eastern slope of northern Coast Range.) 



Cyanocorax stelleri (not Corvus stelleri Gmelin) Gambel, Proe. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1847, 201, part (California). 

 Cyanura delleri Baibd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 581, part (Fort Tejon, 



California); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 435, part. — Heermann, Rep. 



Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 55 (Warner's Ranch, etc., California). — 



Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort Tejon, CaHfornia).— 



Feilner, Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1864 (1865), 427 (Fort Crook, n. e. 



California; habits). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 165, part. 

 Cyanurus stelleri Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1875, 360 (Nevada, Cali- 

 fornia). 

 Cyanocitfa stelleri Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1847, 45, part 



(California). — Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, pt. iv, 1857, 85, part 



(California). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 108, part (California). 

 (?) Garrulus coronatus (not of Swainson) Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 



1867, 63, part (California). 

 Cyanura stelleri var. frontalis Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., 3d ser., v, Jan., 1873, 



41, 43 (Sieo-ra Nevada, near Carson City; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Bull. 



Essex Inst., vii, 1875, 37 (Carson City). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 



Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 279, pi. 39, fig. 2.— Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. 



N. H., 1877, 126 (California; descr. eggs). 

 Cyanura stelleri . . . var. /rontoZis Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 235^^. — Henshaw, 



Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 252 (Tejon Mts., Walkers Basin, 



Mount Whitney, and near Kernville, s. California) . 

 Cyanura stelleri frontalis Ridgway', Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 173 (Sierra 



Nevada). 

 Clyanural stelleri frontalis Henshaw, Orn. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1879, 307 (e. 



slope Sierra Nevada; crit. ; descr. young). 

 [_Cyanurus stelleri var. macrolophusi b. frontalis Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 215 



(synonymy) . 

 Cyanura stelleri . . . /i. frontalis Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 523 (Sierra 



Nevada; habits, etc.). 

 Cyanura var. frontalis Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Wheeler's Surv., 1877, 1305 (e. slope 



Sierra Nevada). 

 Cyanura frontalis Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 319, 333, 336, 347, 388. 

 \_Cyanocitta'\ stelleri \SiV. frontalis Bouc^Cbd, Catalogus Avium, 1876, 279, no. 8732 



(California). 



a Four specimens. ^ Four specimens. 



