BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. S4l 



Southern Arizona (Santa Catalina, Santa Rita, Huachuca, and Chiri- 

 oahua mountains), southwestei-n New jVlexico (Grant County), and 

 northern parts of Sonora (Caeliuta and Bavispe rivers, etc.) and Chi- 

 huahua (San Diejfo). 



i^yanocitta mrdida (not Garrulaa mrdidns Swainson) Baikd, Kep. Pacifit.- li. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 587, part (Copper Mines, Arizona); Rep. T'. S. and Mex. 

 Bound. 8urv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 21 (Copper IMines); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 440. — CofES, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 92 (Fort P>nchanan and 

 Copper Mines, Arizona). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 305, part (i>. Arizona). 



\^Aphelocnma'\ sordida Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 166. 



Aphehcoma sordida Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 237. 



[Cyanurusi siebtri (not Pica sieheriiAV agler) Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 4, no. 6093, 

 part (Arizona). 



Cyanocitta idtrofiKiriiHi, var. arlzome Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Dec, 1873, 199 

 (Fort Buchanan, Arizona; coll. U. S. Nat. ^lus. ). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiixiWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 292.— Hexshaav, Zool. Exp. W. 

 100th Merid., 1875, pi. 12. 



Cyanocitta nUraniariiKi . . . var. arizomx Hensha\v, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1873 (1874), 124 (Camp Grant, etc., Arizona; habits); Zool. Exp. W. 

 100th Merid., 1875, 338 (30 miles s. of Apache, Camp Grant, and Rook 

 Canyon, Arizona; habits, etc.). 



\_Cyanocitta mrdlda'] var. arizomc Baird, Brewer, and Kiuoway, Hist. X. Am. 

 Bird.«, ii, 1874, pi. 41, fig. 2. 



[ApJieloroiiia sordida. ] Subsp. a. Aphelocoma ariwn.v Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., iii, 1877, 117 (Fort Bayard, New Mexico; Camp Crittenden, Arizona). 



Aphelocoma sordida arizonx Ridgway, Proc. I^. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 185; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 295.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vi, 1881, 73 (Chiricahua Mts., s. Arizona); vii, 1882, 201 (Chiricahua and 

 Santa Rita mountains, Arizona; habits; descr. nest and eggs; crit. ). 



Aphelocoma nicJicrii arizomc Ridgway, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 

 355. ^American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 482. — Scott, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 81 (Santa Catalina Mts., s. Arizona; breeding habits; descr. 

 nest and eggs); iv, 1887, 20 (Santa Catalina Mts.).— Allen, Auk, iv, 1887, 21 

 (crit.).— Bendire, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 554 (Fort Huachuca, 

 Arizona; habits; descr. nest and eggs); Life Hist. N. Am. Bird.'^, ii, 1895, 

 380, pi. 5, figs. 19, 20 (eggs).— Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds W. V. S., 

 1902, 276. 



A{^phelocoma'\ sieberii arizon.r Huniww, INIan. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 357. 



Aphelocoma sieberi arizomc AhLKii, BuU. Au\. Mus. X. H., v, 1893,37 (Cachuta 

 and Bavispe rivers, n. e. Sonora; San Diego, n. w. Chihuahua). 



Aphelocoma idtramarinn . . . var. arizomc CorES, (^heck List, 1874, p. 129 

 (no. 237). 



Aphelocoma idframarina arizonn' Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 357. 



A^phelocomal rdtramarina arizonx Coues, Key N^. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 424. 



Aphelocoma uUramarina {not Corvm ultramarinus Bonaparte) Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am.. Aves, i, 1887, 493. jiart. 



APHELOCOMA SIEBERII WOLLWEBERI (Kaup). 

 ZACATECAS JAY. 



Siniihir in coloration to ^1. .^. lO'ho/ut^ but nuich smaller; similar in 

 dimensions to ^4. .v. potosina, l)ut the blue of a lig-ht dull cerulean hue, 

 or intermediate between this and glaucous-blue; l)ack and scapulars 



