498 SYSTEMA TIC SYXOPSIS. — PASSERES— OSCINES. 



A. Tvoodhou'sei. (To S. W. Woodhousc) Woodhouse's Jav. Dorsal patch dark, 

 glossed with blue, shading into the blue of surroundhig parts ; under parts rather darker tlian 

 in C. ci/anea, somewhat bluish-gray ; the under tail-coverts bluish but not contrasted ; on 

 breast the blue and gray shading into each other, gular and pectoral streaks whitish and well 

 defined, superciliary line definite white, but no hoary on forehead ; bill slenderer. Adult J J : 

 General color blue, rich and pure on wings, tail, rump, crown, back and sides of neck, and on 

 breast surrounding the streaky white area. Middle of back and scapulars dark gray much 

 tinged with blue, shading insensibly into surrounding blue. Upper and under tail-coverts blue. 

 Under parts from breast gray, with blue tinge (in caUfornica nearly white). Chin, throat, and 

 breast with a series of whitish blue-edged streaks, enclosed in surrounding blue. Lores, orbits, 

 and aui-iculars dusky. A series of sharp white streaks over and behind eye. Wings and 

 tail blue; the inner webs of most quills, and tail viewed from below, dusky. The inner secon- 

 daries and tail-feathers, closely examined, show obsolete barring, like that wliich becomes pro- 

 nounced in Cyanocitta, but the traces are faint, and the feathers may be properly called plain. 

 Iris brown; bill and feet black. Length of ^, about 12.00; extent 1G.50 ; wing 5.00; tail 

 G.OO; bill 1.12; tarsus 1.50; middle toe and claw 1.33. 9 smaller: average 11.25; extent 

 15.50, etc. Young : Wings and tail as in adult ; upper parts mostly gray ; under parts gray- 

 ish-white, with little or no blue on breast; pectoral streaks undefined, as are those over eye. 

 Rocky Mt. region, from S. E. Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, S. through Coh)rado, parts 

 of Utah and Nevada, S. E. California, Arizona, New Mexico, W. Texas, into N. Mexico. In 

 regions where Woodhouse's and Long-crested Jays occur together, the latter lives chiefly in 

 pines, the former in scrub-oak and other thickets, like its Florida relative. Nest in such situa- 

 tions, rather frail and flattish in comparison with those built by Jays of the genus Cijanocittcif 

 made of twigs as a basement, with the inner structure of rootlets, hairs, etc Eggs laid mostly 

 in April and May, but from late in March to early in June; 3-6 in number, oftenest 4 or 5, 

 pale greenish, rather sparingly flecked all over the surf\ce with rusty brown and duller shell- 

 markings; 1.10 X 0.80 on an average, witli a variation from 1.00 to 1.15 in length. 

 A. insula' ris. (Lat. of an island, insular) Santa CruZ J.\Y. Above, dark azure blue, 

 including exposed surface of wing- and tail-feathers, this color deepest on crown, and ex- 

 tending on sides of head and well down on neck and breast; back dark sepia brown. A 

 white superciliary line ; a black loral and auricular spot. Feathers of throat and breast ashy- 

 white edged with blue; crissumblue; other under parts dull white. Wing 5.35; tail G.25 : 

 tarsus 1.80; bill 1.25. Santa Cruz Island, one of the Santa Barbara group, off the coast of 

 California. The relationships of this species are rather with tcoodhousei than with caUfornica, 

 as it has the bluish under tail-coverts of the former; but its insulation keeps it apart from both, 

 and it may be allowed to stand. Nesting as usual in the genus : eggs 2-3, averaging 1.18 X 

 0.88 ; markings rather light brown, lavender, and grayish. Henshaw, Auk, Oct. 1886, 

 p. 452; A. 0. U. List, No. 481. 1. A. floridana insularis of the Key, 3d and 4th eds. 1887 

 and 1890, p. 878 and p. 901. 



A. cyano'tis. (Gr. Kvavos, kuanos, a dark blue substance, and as adj. blue, like Lat. cijaneus ; 

 and -Otis, combining form of Gr. ovs, gen. wTo'y, the ear.) Blue-EARED Jay. Closely resem- 

 bling Woodhouse's and the California Jay, especially the latter, having the belly and cris- 

 sum white; but sides of head bright blue, like the crown, and superciliary stripe obsolete ; 

 interscapular patch dark gray tinged with blue. Size of the nthers. A Mexican species to 

 which specimens taken in July, 1890, in western Texas near the border have been referred. 

 See Auk, Oct. 1894, p. 327, and A[)r. 1895, p. 165; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, No. 480. 1. 

 This bird is new to the Key : orig. descr. in RiDGW. Man. 1887, p. 3.57. 



A. califor'nica. (Of California.) CALIFORNIA Jay. Dorsal patch light and distinct, as in 

 cijanea, but under parts, including tail-coverts and tibite, nearly white: gular streaks very 

 large, aggregated, and white, causing throat to be nearly uniform; a white superciliary line, 



