BIRDS OB^ NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 335 



the Colorado), 94 (Sau FranciHco Mts., etc., Arizona).— Fisiiek, North Ahi. 

 Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 69 (White, Inyo, Argus, Coso, and Panamint mountains, 

 s. e. California; Charleston, Grapevine, Juniper, and Pahroc mountains, 

 Nevada; Beaverdam Mts., Utah).^ALLEN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 

 37 (Bisbee, s. Arizona). — Lowe, Auk, xi, 1894, 268 (Wet Mts., Colorado, 

 (5,000 to 8,000ft.).— Benuire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 372, pi. 5, fig. 

 14 (egg).— Mitchell, Auk, xv, 1898, 309 (San Miguel Co., New Mexico, 

 breeding up to 8,000 ft.). 



Alphelocoma] uvodhomei lliVGWw, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 355. 



Aphelocoma ivoodhonse'd B.\iley (Florence M.), Ilandb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 274. 



\_Cyanurus\ woodhouseil Gray, Iland-lif^t, ii, 1870, 4, no. 6097. 



APHELOCOMA CYANOTIS Ridgway. 

 BLTTE-CHEEKED JAT. 



Similar to^l. vjoodkoufieii^ but wiijo- cU'ciUcdly loiioer and posterior 

 under parts (includinjj- under tail-coverts) white; back more frequently 

 tino-ed with blue, sometimes almost uniform blue; white superciliary 

 streak much reduced, sometimes obsolete. 



J/r^Z(^-" Length* (skins), 277-?>()2 (287.5); wing, i37.;")-14(i (14(»); tail, 

 138-U7.5 (U3); exposed culmen, 26-28.5 (27); depth of lull at nos- 

 trils, 9.4-10 (9.6); tarsus, 39-42 (40.5); middle toe, 21-23 (22. 5). « 



F<'inale.~l^^\\^i\\ (skins), 269-282 (275); wing, 138-137 (135.5); tail, 

 134.5-140 (136.5); exposed culmen, 23.5-26.5 (25); depth of bill at 

 nostrils, 9-9.6 '(9.4); tarsus, 39-41.5 (40.5); middle toe, 20.5-22.5 (21).* 



Mexican plateau, in States of Mexico (City of Mexico, Tlalpam, D. 

 F.), Hidalg-o (Real del Monte, El Chico, Tula, etc.), San Luis Potosi 

 (Jesus Maria, La Parada, mountains near Charcas, etc.), Coahuila (Car- 

 neros, Sierra Encarnacion, Sierra Guadalupe, etc.). and Duraiigo 

 (Cerro Prieto); north to southwestern Texas (Japonica, Kerr County; 

 Paisano, Brewster Count}'; Sonora, Sutton County). 



Oyanocitta woodhouseii Baird, Rep. Pacilic R. K. Snrv.. ix, 1858, 585 (spec. no. 



8465, Mexico). 

 Cyanocitta californica (not Garrulus californicus Vigors) Sclater and Salvin, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1869, 362, part, cxcl. syn. part (City of Mexico; 



Tierra fria?). 

 ICyanoclttal ca/t/bni/ca Sclater and Salvix, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 39, part. 

 [Cyanocitta californica'] var. siunirhrasti (not Cyanocitta foridana \-a.r. m)nichra^ti 



Ridgway, 1873) Baird, Brewer, and Rid(;way, Hist. N. .\m. Birds, ii, 1874, 



283, part (City of ^lexico). 

 Apheloroina mmichfasti Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 214, part ( Mount.s 



Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatapetl, Mexico, up to 11,000 ft.). 

 Alphelocoma'] cyanotic Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 357 (Mexico; coll. 



U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Aphelocoma cyanotis Rid(;wav, Man. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 592; 2d ed., 1896, 613. — 



JouY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 781 (25 m. s. of Charcas, San Luis 



Potosi, Mexico, 7,000-8, (X)0 ft. ). — A.mericax Okmtholocusts' Uxiox, Check 



List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 480.1, part (Mexico); Auk, xix, 1902, 321 (Sutton Co., 



Texas).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. l'. S., 1902, 274. 



, " Five specimens. ' ^ Three specimens. 



