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region deep black ; white spot above eye larger than in other 

 forms ; wing 5.50-5.95 (5.73), tail 5.00-5.75 (5.57), exposed culmen 

 .97-1.07 (1.02), tarsus 1.60-1.72 (1.67). Hah. Portions of southern 

 Mexico (Mirador, Orizaba, Xalapa, near city of Mexico, Oaxaca, 

 Sierra Madre of Colima, etc.) and south to Guatemala and Honduras. 



C. stelleri coronata (Swains.). Coronated Jay.^ 



Genus APHELOCOMA Cabanis. (Page 351, pi. C, fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Lower parts chiefly light grayish or whitish. 

 h^. Tail longer than wing. 



c^ Forehead and nasal tufts hoary whitish. 



Adult : Head, neck, chest, wings, rump, upper tail-coverts, tail, 

 and under tail-coverts dull azure-blue ; forehead, nasal tufts, 

 and superciliary region pale hoary grayish blue; back and 

 scapulars light brownish gray; chin and throat light ash- 

 gray, or grayish white, finely streaked with darker, the ash- 

 gray continued in broad stripes on chest ; rest of lower parts 

 light brownish gray ; length 10.50-12.50, wing 4.25-4.50 (4.40), 

 tail 5.30-5.90 (5.73), culmen .90-.99 (.94), tarsus 1.35-1.60 

 (1.47). Nest of twigs, rootlets, etc., in thickets or low trees. 

 Eggs 1.13 X -79, pale greenish, spotted with pale reddish brown 

 or rusty. Hab. Florida. 



479. A. floridana (Bartr.). Florida Jay. 

 c'. Forehead and nasal tufts bright blue, like crown. 



d}. Lower tail-coverts bright blue, markedly different from color of 

 belly. 

 e\ Back and scapulars dull slaty grayish, tinged with blue ; breast, 

 sides, and flanks light ash-gray; blue of upper parts, etc., 

 a light dull azure hue ; length 11.50-12.75, wing 4.70-5.35 

 (5.02), tail 5.20-6.20 (5.68), culmen .93-1.06 (1.01), tarsus 

 1.45-1.59 (1.55). Nest in thickets or low trees. Eggs 3-6, 

 1.10 X .79, pale green, pale greenish buff, or pale grayish 

 green, rather sparsely marked with very distinct dots or 

 small spots of deep madder-brown. Hah. Middle Province 

 of United States, north to eastern Oregon, Idaho, Montana, 

 and "Wyoming, west to western Nevada and Arizona, east 

 to Coloi-ado and New Mexico, and south into northwestern 

 Mexico.. 480. A. woodhousei (Baird). Woodhouse's Jay. 

 e^. Back and scapulars dark sepia-brown, without blue tiuge; 

 breast, sides, and flanks brownish white, or very pale 



1 Garruhis coronatus SwAiNS., Philos. Mag. i. 1827, 437. Cyanocitta coronata Strickl., Ann. N. H. 1845, 

 261. 



