110 CORVIDJC. 



(/. Juu. sk. Sitka. Purchased. 



e. Juv. sk. 49th parallel {Datcson). N.-A. Boundary Com- 



mission [C.]. 



f. Ad. sk. San Juan de Fuca. Capt. Kellett and Lieut. 



Wood [P.]. 



ff. Ad. sk. " Saturna Island." Dr. L^-all [P.]. 



h, i, k. Ad. sk. British Columbia. J. K. Lord, Esq. [C.]. 



/. Ad. sk. California. Zoological Society. 



m, n. Ad. sk. California (Lortjiiiii). Purchased. 



0. Jut. sk. California, June 24, 1871 II. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



(Dr. Fi>isc/>). 



3. Cyanocitta macrolopha. 



Garrulus stelleri, Su-ains. ^ Rich. Faiiti. Bor.-Amer. Birds, pi. 54 (««• 



p. 294). 

 Cyanocorax stelleri, Woodhmate in Sitc/rcave's Beport Zimi S( Color, 



Rivers, p. 77. 

 Cyanocitta macrolopha, Baird, Pr. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. 1854, p. 

 'll8; Sclafer, Cat. Am. B. p. 143; Sclater fy Salv. Nomencl. Ac. 



Neotr. p. 39. 

 Cyanura macrolopha, Bnird, B. N. Amer. p. 582 ; Cones, Am. Xat. 



"v. p. 770 ; Elliot, B. K Amer. i. pi. 17. 

 Cyanurus macrolophus, Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 4. 

 Cyanurus stelleri, var. macrolophus, Allen, Bnll. Hari\ Coll. ii. p. 178 ; 



Coue$, Key N.-Amer. B. p. 165, iig. 107 ; Baird, Bre^cer, ^ Ridgw. 



N.-Amer. B. ii. p. 281, pi. 29. iig. 3 ; Coues, B. N. West, p. 214. 

 Cyanura coronata, var. macrolopha, Ridgw. Am. Jouru. (3) v. p. 43. 



Adult male. Head and neck all round, including the mantle and 

 scapulars on the upper surface, and extending as far as the chest 

 below, sooty black, ■with a slight wash of grey on the mantle and 

 scapulars ; the head, crest, and face blacker than the back, the fore 

 part of the cro-mi streaked with cobalt-blue ; over the eye a spot of 

 silverj' white ; the throat also sooty grey ; lower back, rump, and 

 tipper tail-coverts dull cobalt-blue, brighter on the latter ; tail deep 

 ultramarine, brighter on the margins of the feathers, which are 

 waved under certain lights with obsolete bars of black ; wings deep 

 ultramarine, the primaries externally cobalt, the secondaries brighter 

 blue, the innermost barred with black, as also arc the greater coverts ; 

 the median series likewise with a few faint indications of terminal 

 black bars ; under surface of body from the chest downwards dull 

 cobalt ; thighs and under wing-coverts black, shaded with blue ; 

 bill and legs black. Total length 12 inches, culmen 1-25, wing 6, 

 tail 6*05, tarsus 1'75. 



Young. Has the bright blue of the body and the black of the head 

 replaced by a dull slate ; the head unvaried (Bidgway). 



Hah. Central line of Eocky Mountains, from the northern border 

 of the United States to tablelands of Mexico ; Arizona (liidgwag). 



a. Ad. st. [North America.] Hudson's Bay Co. [P.]. 



h, c. S 2 ^- sk. West side of Eocky Moimtains. J. K. Lord, JEsq. [P.]. 



d. S ad. sk. Fremont County, Colorado, Purchased. 



March 25, 18/6. 



e. 9 ad. sk. Arapahoe County, Colorado, Purchased. 



Nov. 24. 1872.' 



