BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 349 



Temperate eastern North America, except peninsula of Florida; 

 north on Atlantic coast to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New 

 Brunswick (resident), etc., in the interior to about latitude 52°, 

 casually to .56°; west to eastern Assiniboia. eastern North and South 

 Dakota, eastern half of Ne))raska, eastern two-thirds of Kansas, 

 eastern Oklahoma and eastern half (approximately) of Texas; south 

 to the Gulf coast, except in Florida. 



[Corvus] cristatus Linnjeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 106 (based on the Bleiv 

 Jay Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 13, pi. 1.'}; The Blue Jay, Pica glandaria 

 carolinenm ca^rulea, Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist, v, 60, pi. 239; Le Geay 

 bleu, du Canada, Brisson, Orn. ii, 55; Buffon, PI. Col., pi. 529); ed. 12, i, 

 1766, 157.— Gmklin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 369.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 

 158. 



Corr«.s> cristatiiK Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1808, 11, pi. 1, fig. 1. — Doughty, Cab. Nat. 

 Hist., 1832, 62, pi. 6.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lyo. N. Y., iii, 1828, 58.— Nuitall, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 224.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 11; 

 V, 1839, 475, pi. 102. 



Garruluit cristatus YiEiLi^oT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xii, 1817, 477; Enc. Meth., 

 ii, 1823, 890; Gal. Ois., 1834, 160, pi. 102.— Swainson and Richardson, 

 Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 293.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 154; Birds Am., 

 oct. ed., iV, 1842, 110, pi. 231.— Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 192 

 (Indiana; Missouri). — SfHLE(4EL, Mus. Pays-Has, Coraces, 1867, 62. — Trippe, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871, 177 (Minnesota, resident). 



F[ica] cristuta Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, I'ica, sj). 8. 



Qyanurus cristatus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 495. — B.\ird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 580.— Dresser, Ibi.s, 1865, 494 (s. Texas).— Coues, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 234, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 214; Bull. IT. S. Seol. 

 and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 607 (Pembina, North Dakota).— McChes- 

 ney, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 80 (Fort Sisseton, 

 South Dakota). 



\_Cyaiiuri(K'] ciistdtux (tray. Hand-list, ii, 1870, 3, no. 6085. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 165, part. 



Cyanura cristata Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 434. — Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 

 8 (Forks of Saskatchewan). — B.vird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 273, part, pi. 42, fig. 3. — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.,iii, 

 1872, 138 (Fort Hays, w. Kansas, abundant), 178 (e. Kansas). 



C[;yanura'\ rridata Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 112 (n. e. Illinois, abt. 

 resid. ). 



Cyanocorax crisldtun Bon.\parte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 27. — Woodhouse, 

 in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 77 (Indian Territory; 

 Texas). 



Clyanocorax} cristatus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 307. 



0//a?ioct<ta cr/.s<o<rf Strickland, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xv, 1845, 261. — Scl.\ter, 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 142.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 289 (vie. 

 New York City). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 107 (Toronto, 

 Ontario; Ann Arbor, Michigan; 49th Parallel). — Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Clul), V, 1880, 98; Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 349.— Ridgway, Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 289, part; Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 335.— Chamberlain, 

 Bull. N. II. Soc. New Bruns., i, 1882, 43 (New Brunswick, resid. ).— Nehr- 

 LiN.i, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 168 (s. e. Texas, breeding); Our Native 

 Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 317, pi. 17, tig. 1.— Ogilby, Scient. Proc. Roy. Dubl. 



