302 SINGING BIRDS — OSCINES. 



Cyanocitta Californica, Vigors. 

 THE CALIFORNIA JAY. 



Garndus Califonu'ciis, Vigors, Zool. Beechey's Voyage, 1839, 21 ; pi. v. — Ci/anocitta Cali- 

 funiictis, Stkicklasd, Ann. Mag. XV. 342. — Gambel, J. A. N. Sc. 2d Series, I. Dec. 

 1847, 45. — Newiieruv, P. R. R. Rep. VI. iv. 1857, 85. — Baird, P. R R. Rep. IX. 

 Birds, 554. — Kenxerly, X. iv. 32. — Heermasn. X. vi. 55. 



Corvus ultramarinus, AuDCBON, Orn. Biog. IV. 1838, 456 ; pi. .362. (Not Gamihis ullramari- 

 nus, Bonaparte.) — Gan-ulus ultramarinus, Ai'dueos, Syn. 1839, 154. — Audubon, 

 Birds Amer. IV. 1842, 115; pi. 232. — Nuttall, Man. I. 2d ed. 245. Not of Bona- 

 parte. 



Sp. Char. AVidth of bill at base of lower mandible ratlier more than half the length 

 of eulmen. Lateral tail feathers about an inch shortest. Tail an inch longer than the 

 wings. General color above, including the surface of the wings, bi-ight blue, without any 

 bars. The whole back, including to some extent the interscapulars, brownish-ash, very 

 faintly glossed with blue in the adult. A streaked white superciliary line from a little 

 anterior to the eye as far as the occiput. Sides of the head and neck blue, the region 



around and behind the eye, including lores and most of ear coverts, black. Tlie blue of 

 the sides of the neck extends across the fore part of the breast, forming a crescent, inter- 

 rupted in the middle. The under parts anterior to the crescent, white streaked with 

 blue ; behind it dull white ; the sides tinged with brown. Length, 12.25 ; extent, 15.00 ; 

 wing, 5.00 ; tail, 6.15 ; tarsus, 1 55. Iris brown ; bill and feet black. 



Hab. Pacific Coast from Columbia Elver south tu Cape St. Lucas. Not east of the 

 Sierra Nevada ? 



According to Nuttall, tins species was common at Fort Vancouver in Oc- 

 tober, 1834, but it has not been seen there by recent collectors, and, according 

 to Newberry, was not found anywhere in Oregon during his journey in 1855, 

 its range being limited strictly by the Sacramento Valley. Xuttall found 



