28. APHELOCOMA. 113 



a". Over tlie eye a distiuct line of whitish 

 feathers. 

 a.'" Under tail-coverts whitish ; ear-coverts 

 dusky blackish, with a very faint blue 

 wash. 



a\ Eyebrow very strongly marked califwnica, p. 113. 



b\ Eyebrow very faintly 'indicated snmichrasti, p. 114. 



b'". Under tail-coverts bluish ; ear-coverts 



also bluish icoodhousii, p. 114. 



6". No white superciliai-y streak. , „ . ,,^ 



c'". Tail neai-ly square. . \ ^iUramanna p. 115. 



I cour/ii, p. 110. 



d'". Tail much rounded Uurdida, p. IIG. 



, I artzoiice, p. 117. 



b . Nasal bristles and forehead hoary white, run- 

 ning into a distiuct eyebrow of the same 

 colour ; scapulars blue, like the wings ; inter- 

 scapidary region as lightly coloured as the 



lower parts fioridana, p. 117. 



o. Under surface of body blue, like the upper, 

 c'. Size much larger : throat blue, like the breast ; 



forehead and eyebrow blue, like the cro\TO. . uuicolur, p. 118. 

 d'. Size much smaller : throat bluish white, con- 

 trasting with the breast ; forehead and eye- 

 brow bluish white, lighter than the rest of 

 the crown nana, p. 118. 



1. Aphelocoma calif ornica. 



Gan-ulus californicus, Vigors in Zuul. Uecchei/s Voifage, p. 21, pi. 5, 

 Cyanocitta califcrnica, hrickl. Ann. N. H. 1845, xv. p. 342; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 377 ; Baird, B. N. Ainer. p. 584 ; IScl. Cat. Am. B. 



p. 143 ; Cooper, Orn. Culif. i. p. 302 ; Baird, Breiver, & Ridyw. N.- 



Amer. B. p. 288. 

 Cyanocitta superciliosa, Strickl. Ann. N. H. xv. p. 260. 

 Corvus ultramarinus, Audub. Orn. Bioyr. iv. p. 456 ; id. B. Amer. 



pi. cccLsii. 

 Garrulus ultramarinus, Auduh. B. Amer. iv. p. 116, pi. 232 {nee Bp.). 

 Cyanocorax californicus, Gamb. Pr. Acad. Nat. Ha. Philad. 1847, 



p. 201. 

 Aphelocoma califomica, Cab. Mns. Kein. Th. i. p. 221 ; Bp. C. R. 



xxxii. p. 828. 

 C3'auums californicus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 4. 

 Aphelocoma Horidana, var, californica, Coites, Key N.-Ajner. B. p. 166 - 



id. B. N. West, p. 219. 



Adult. Head and neck bright cobalt-blue, including also the sides 

 of the latter ; back drab-brown, fading off into grey on the rump ; 

 the upper tail-coverts pale cobalt, like the tail ; wings pale blue, 

 the primary-coverts and the primaries brown towards the tips ; lores 

 dusky ; car-covcrts and hinder part of cheeks blackish, shaded with 

 blue ; over the eye a long and distinct eyebrow ; fore part of cheeks 

 dull white, streaked ^vith blue ; under surface of body ashy white, 

 inclining to pure white on the under tail-coverts, the throat and 

 chest rather lighter, and streaked slightly with brown, with which 

 colour some of the feathers are edged ; the sides of the breast more 



