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22. CALOCITTA. 



Calocitta, Gray, List Gen. B. 1841, p. 50 



Cyauuvus, Bp. Consp. i. p. '?>S0 (18-JO, nee Stcains.) 



Type. 

 C. foriiiosa. 

 C. formosa. 



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^v. 



Head of Calocitta formosa. 

 Range. Confined to Central America. 



Key to the Sjiecies. 



a. Under surface of body -white, -svith a crescentic band 

 of dull blue across the chest ; throat white ; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts white formosa, p. 88. 



h. Throat and fore neck black, with a malar patch of 

 white washed with blue ; rest of under surface of 

 body white ; cheeks and ear-coverts black colliei, p. 89. 



1. Calocitta formosa. 



Pica formosa, Sxoains. Phil. Mag. 1827, p. 4.37. 



Pica bullockii, Wagler, Syst. Av. Pica, sp. 4. 



Garrula gubernatrix, Temtn. PI. Col. ii. pi. 4-36. 



Cyanurus formosus, Sivains. Faun. Bor.-Amer. Birch, p. 49.5. 



Calocitta bullockii. Gray, List Gen. B. 1841, p. 50; Cab.Mus. Hein. 



Th. i. p. 22.5. 

 Psilorhinus gubernatrix, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 308. 

 Psilorhinus bullockii. Gray, t. e. p. 308. 

 Cyanurus bullockii, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 115 ; id. Consp. i. p. 380 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 6. 

 Calocitta formosa, Sel. ^ Salt. Lbis, 1859, p. 22 ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 145 ; Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 40 ; Later. Mem. Bost. 



Soc. N. H. ii. p. 285. 



Adult. General colour above bluish grey, brighter round the hinder 

 neck and on the sides of the latter; wings more decidedly blue than 

 the back, with a slight shade of greyish purple, especially on the 

 innermost secondaries, which are also decidedly shaded with cobalt 

 on the inner webs, the rest of the quills brownish on their inner 



