BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 339 



[Ci/aiiocUtd] sirheri Bos Ai'AHTE, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 378. 



AlpheloaniKi] .veherl C\BAy;is, Mas. Ilein., i, Oct., ]8ol, 221, footnote. 



Aphelocoma Kieherii Ferkari-Perkz, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 153 (Cerro 

 de San Pedro, Hacienda de San Pedro, and San Salvador el Verde, Pueblo) . — 

 Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 214 (Mount Orizaba, Vera Cruz, 10,000 

 ft.).— Cox, Auk, xii, 1895, 358 (Mount Orizaba).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mu.s. 

 N. H., X, 1898, 42 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 8,000 ft.). 



A[phelncoma'] sicberii RiuCxvr ay, IVIan. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 358. 



I Ci/a mints'] sieheri Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 4, no. (5093, part (Mexico). 



GarrulKS xurdidux Swaixson, Pliilos. Mag., new ser., i, .June, 1827, 437 (Real del 

 Monte, Hidalgo, :\Iexico); Zo(j1. lUustr., 2d ser., ii, 1831?, pi. 86. 



Ci/anurns Hordidiis SwAiymos, Fauna Eor.-Am., ii, 1831, 495. 



[O/auoc/ayralus'] liordidtis Bom avah'ie, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 378. 



Aphelocoma soirUda Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. IMus., iii, 1877, IIH. 



Ctjanocitta sordida Baird, Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv.,ii, pt. ii, 1859, pl. 

 22, fig. 1 (not the text; Mexico); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pl. 60, fig. 1 

 (not the text, p. 587, except in part). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 143 

 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz).— Sitmichrast,« Mem. Bost. Soc-. N. II., i, 1869, 554 

 (plateau and alpine reg. Vera Cruz). — Baird, Brewer, and Rii)(;\\av, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 284, footnote, pl. 41, fig. 1. 



[Cyanocitta] sordida Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 39, part. 



[Oyanocitta xdtramarina] var. sordida Baird, Brewer and Ridgwav, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 284 (Orizaba and Mirador, Vera Cruz). 



flarndux nJtramavinus (not Cwvur xdtramarinus BowaxtaTiQl) Te.mmixck, Pl. Col., 

 ii, 18,38, pl. 439.^ — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 64, part. 



Cyanoconix vltramarinus Sclater, Proc. Zoo). Soc. Lond., 1857, 204 (Jalapa); 

 1859, 365 (do.). 



[Garrulus] ultranturimts Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 4, no. 6095, part. 



Aphelocoma uliramarina (not of Sharpe?) Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1887, 493, part (excl. sj^nonyms ultramarinus, conchi, and arizonx). 



Corvus azureus (not of Temminck, 1822) Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. 

 1830, 1 (Mexico); .Tourn. fiir Orn. 1863, 56 (reprint). ' 



APHELOCOMA SIEBERII COLIMiE Nelson. 

 COLIMA JAY. 



Similar to ^1. .v. sieheri/, but slig-htly smaller (except bill), and .some- 

 what lighter colored, especially the under parts, which are more 

 extensively white posteriorly and of a more brownish, as well as 

 lighter, gray anteriorly; the blue of a mor(> cerulean hue. as in .1. .v. 

 jfofosina. 



Adidt wr^/6^ -Leng-th (skins), 317.5-325 (321.5); wing, 17(i-18(> (178); 

 tail, 158-160 (158.5); exposed culmen, 26.5-29 (27.5); depth of bill at 

 nostrils, 10.5; tarsu.s, 43-44 (43.5); middle toe, 23.5-25 (24).' 



« Cyr?;ocjVta ?(/<ramorm« of Sumichrast (Mem. Bost. Soc. N. II., i, 1869, 554) seem.s 

 to l)e J. //»/co/or, since the latter name is omitted from his list, while the present 

 species is given as C sordida. 



''According to Schlegel (Mus. Pays-l>as, Coraces, 64), the specimen tigurecl is the 

 type of Pica sirhcrii Wagler. 



<^ Three specimens. 



