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webs ; upper tail-coverts dull cobalt ; tail-feathers rich purplish 

 cobalt, the four outermost rectriccs white for the terminal third ; 

 crown of head black washed with blue, Avith a long crest of slightly 

 recurved feathers springing from the forehead and reaching beyond 

 the nape ; lores and featliers above the eye bluish white ; feathers 

 round the eye dusky ; above the hinder part of the latter a small 

 black spot ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of face creamy white, with 

 a broad black band running do\Cn the sides of the neck behind the 

 ear-coverts, and trending below the latter on their hinder margin ; 

 from below the eye a narrow perpendicular streak of bluish black 

 crosses the cheek ; entire under surface of body creamy white, the 

 chin slightly washed with blue, and the chest crossed with a cres- 

 centic band of dull blue inclining to black on the sides of the chest; 

 flanks purplish grey ; under wing-coverts creamy white, the edge of 

 the wing greyish blue. Total length 18 inches, culmen 1'5, wing 

 (}-95, tail 12, tarsus 1"7. 



Nestling. Upper surface dusky grey, the downy feathers edged 

 with whitish at the tip, the new feathers dull verditer-green ; wing- 

 coverts and quills greenish ; tail dull cobalt, the outer feathers 

 tipped with white ; head and neck all round and entire under sur- 

 face of body white. 



Hah. Central America : Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Xicaragua, 

 Honduras. 



A. Boucard, Esq. [C.l. 

 A. Boucard, Esq. [C.]. 



Purchased. 

 Mr. Dvson[C.]. 

 A. Salle, Esq. [C.]. 

 G. Barclav, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Calocitta colliei. 



Pica colliei, Vigors in Zoology of Beecheys Voyage, p. 22, pi. 7. 

 Pica bullockii, Audiib. B. Amer. iv. p. lOo, pi. 227. 

 Cyauurus colliei, Bp. Coiisp. i. p. 381 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 6. 

 Calocitta colliei, Fimch, Ahhandl. Ver. Brem. 1870, p. 3.34 ; Scl. f 



Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 40 ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. See. A". JT. ii. 



p. 285. 

 Calocitta elegans, Finsch, Ahhandl. Ver. Brem. 1870, p. 334. 



Adult. General colour above dull blue ; the wings like the back 

 but a little brighter on the edges, the piimaries externally washed 

 with cobalt ; tail-feathers purplish cobalt, the four outermost broadly 

 tipped with white ; crown of head deep blue, with a very long crest of 

 black feathers slightly washed with blue, and extending from the 

 forehead be3-ond the nape; lores, region of the eye, ear-coverts, sides 

 of neck, and entire throat and fore neck black, the latter here and 

 there washed with blue ; above and below the eye a streak of bluish- 

 white plumes ; a broad malar stripe of white, blue on its upper 

 margin ; down the sides of the neck a narrow baud of bluish white 



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