108 cohvid.t:. 



which is bliick, forming a large patch glossed slightly with purple 

 both above and below ; a narrow band across the forehead, loral 

 plumes, and a narrow line of feathers through tlie e}e blackish ; 

 rest of under surface of body pale lilac-brown, inclining to white on 

 the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts ; imder wing-coverts 

 black, the outermost shaded with purplish blue ; the median series 

 tipped with white, forming a transverse bar ; a spot at the edge of 

 the wing white ; wings above purplish blue, glossed with cobalt, the 

 least coverts resembling the back, the greater series brighter and 

 more cobalt, transversely barred with black, and broadly tipped with 

 white, forming a bar across the wing ; quills ashy black ; the pri- 

 maries externally bright blue, the secondaries inclining to purple 

 externally and barred with black, the innermost bright cobalt, 

 transversely barred with black and broadly tipped with white ; tail 

 bright blue, all but the two centre feathers broadlj- tipped with 

 white, these two barred across with black, these bars only seen on 

 the outer webs of the otlier tail-feathers, and disappearing entirely 

 on the outermost ; " bill and feet bro\\Tiish black ; iris brown " 

 (Audubon). Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 1'2, wing 5-5, tail 

 5*4, tarsus ho. 



Youm/. Similar to the adult, the colours much duller, but distri- 

 Inited in the same manner ; the ring round the nape and the fore 

 neck brown instead of black, as in the old bird ; under wing-coverts 

 greyer than in the adult, the bluish white tips to the median series 

 very large and distinct. 



ffab. North America. 



a. Ad. st. North America. J. Gould, Esq. 



b. Ad. sk. North America. 



c. Ad. sk. North America. LordOdo Russell [P.]. 



d. Juv. sk. North America. Dr. Ridgway [P.]. 



«. Ad. sk. Toronto, Canada. ISIi". James Whitely [C.]. 



/. Juv. sk. Toronto, Canada. Mr. James Whitely [C.]. 



ff, h. Ad. sk. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prof. J. B. Steere [P.]. 



/, k, I. Ad. sk. 49th parallel {Datvson). N.-A. Boundary Commis- 



sion [C.]. 

 m. Skeleton. North America. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



2. Cyanocitta stelleri. 



Steller's Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 389 (1781) ; Fenn. Arct. Zool. 



ii. p. 249, pt. 1. 

 Corvus stelleri, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 370 ; Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. 



p. .393 ; Auduh. Om. Biogr. iv. p. 453 ; id. B. Amer. pi. ccclxii. 

 Cramdus stelleri, Vieill. N. Diet. xii. p. 481 ; Bj). Amer. Om. ii. p. 



44, pi. xii. fig. 1 ; Sic. i^- Richards. Faun. Bor.-Am. Birds, p. 294 



(wee pi. 54) ; Auduh. B. Amer. roy. 8vo, iv. p. 107, pi. ccxxx. 

 Cyanurus stelleri. Swains. Faun. Bor.-Am. Birds, p. 49o ; Baird, B. 



N. Amer. p. 581 ; Lord, Natural. Vane. Isl. p. 73 : Ball ^- Bann. 



Tr. Chicago Acad. i. p. 286 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 4 ; Cooper, 



Om. Calif, i. p. 298 ; Cows, Key N.-Amer. B. p. 165 ; Ridgw. Am. 



Jmirn. Sci. i^- Arts (3), v. p. 43 ; Baird, Brewer, ^- Ridgw. N.-Amer. 



B: ii. p. 227, pi. 39. fig. 1 ; Cones, B. N. West, p. 214. 



