BIRDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLK AMERICA. 343 



CyanocUta uHramarina (nut Coriu.-< uUramarimis Bonaparte) Baird, Rep. Pacific 



R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 588 (Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico); ed. 1860 (Birds 



N. Am.), atlas, pi. 60, fig. 2; Rep. U. S. and Hex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 



1859, 45, pi. 22, fig. 2 (Monterey west to Parras) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 



no. 441. 

 [Oyanurus'] ultramarinus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 4, no. 6095, part. 

 Aphelocoma uliramarina Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 



493, part. 

 dyanocUla'] couchii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 588, in text 



("Monterey," i. e., Guajuco, 18 miles s. e. of Monterey, Nuevo Leon; coll. 



U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 [Oyanocitta ultramarina'} var. couchi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 284. 

 Cyanocilia ultramarina, var. couchi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 293. 

 [Aphelocoma ultramarina.] Subsp. a. Aphelocoma couchi Sharpe, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 116. 

 Aphelocoma ultramarina couchii Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 



185, 229. 

 Aphelocoma uHramarina couchi Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 294. 

 Alphelocoma] couchi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 357. 

 Ajjhelocoma couchi Miller, Auk, xiii, 1896, 34, 36, in text.— Bailey (Florence IVL ), 



Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 276. 

 [Cyanocltta] t<ordida (not Garrulus sordidus Swaiuson) Sclater and Salvin, 



Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 39, part. 

 Aphelocoma sieberii couchi Oberholser, Auk, xix, July. 1902, 300 (Chisos Mts., 



s. w. Texas). 



(?) APHELOCOMA ULTRAMARINA (Bonaparte). 

 TTLTRAMARINE JAY. 



Similar in size and coloration to A. sieberii sieberii, but tip of tail 

 "perfectly even" or truncated.^' 

 "Mexico." 



Ciorvui\ idiramarinus Bonaparte, .Tourn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, pt. u, no. 12, 



May, 1825, 387 (Mexico). 

 [Cyanocitta] ultramarinus Boa ap arte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 378. 



« "C. idtramarinns. Coeruleus subtus cinerascenti-albidus, cauda equali. 



"Length, thirteen inches. Bill one inch and a half long, strongly notched at tip, 

 and with the feet black; incumbent setaceous feathers of the base of the bill, partly 

 black and partly blue; whole plumage above, including the wings and fail, bright 

 azure, most vivid and somewhat sericeous on the head and tail-coverts, duller and 

 slightly intermixed with dusky on the back; inner webs and tips of quill feathers 

 dusky; shafts of the wings and tail feathers black; lora black; c/iec/.-y dull blackish 

 blue; chin whitish, intermixed with black l)nstles; whole inferior surface dirty whiti.^h, 

 more tinged with cinereous on the anterior parts, and becoming purer towards the 

 vent; infa-ior wing and tail-coverts slightly intermixed with blue; inferior surjace of 

 the wings and of the tad dusky-gray, the latter darker; wings when closed reaching 

 almost to the middle of the tail, which is seven inches long, and pertectly even at 

 tip." (Original description.) . . 



This verv doubtful form continues to be known only from Bonaparte's ilescnption, 

 quoted above. It is probably the same as one of the larger forms of .1. sieberii, but 

 which one can not be determined without examination of the type. 



