114 COKVID.E. 



or less blue, forming a cresceutic mark ; under wing-coverts ashy, 

 shaded mth blue ; ))ill and legs black. Total length 11-8 inches, 

 eulmen 1-2, wing 4-S, tail 5'7, tarsus 1*6. 



Young. Lighter brown than the adult, the head only a little darker 

 and shaded with blue, not blue entirely ; upper tail-coverts white ; 

 sides of face and of neck dull ashy, running down each side of the 

 breast and enclosing the throat, which is paler than the rest of the 

 under surface. 



Hah. Paciiic province of United States. 



2. Aphelocoma sumichrasti. 



Cyanocitta calif ornica, 8cl. ^- Salv. Numencl. Av. Neotr. p. 39 (tiec Vig. ). 

 Cyanocitta sumichrasti, Riclyic. Rep. Geol. E.rpl. AOth j)ar. 

 Cyanocitta califomica, var. sumichrasti, Baircl, Brewer, Sf Ridgw. 



N.-Amer. B. ii. p. 283. 

 Cyanocitta tloridana, var. sumicrasti, Cones, B. N. West, p. 219. 



Adult. Similar to A. califomica, but with the white eyebrow 

 obsolete or scarcely distinguishable. Total length 12'5 inches, eul- 

 men 1*3, wing 5-8, tail 6-3, tarsus 1-7. 



Hah. Mexico. 



a. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



h. c? ad. sk. Atlisko, Mexico. A. Boucard, Esq. [C.J. 



c. Ad. sk. Oaxaca, Mexico. A. Boucard, Esq. [C.J. 



3. Aphelocoma woodhousii. 



Cyanocorax califomica, IVoodh. in Sitgr. Report Zuni 8f Color. Rivers, 



p. 77 (wee Vig.). 

 Cyanocitta woodhousii, Baird, Birds N. Amer. p. 58-5, pi. lix. ; id. 



Report Mexican Bound, ii. Birds, p. 20, pi. xxi. ; Cooper, B. C(dif. 



i. p. 304 ; Allen, Bull. Harv. Coll. ii. p. 299, note. 

 Cyanurus woodliousei. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 4. 

 Cyanocitta califomica, var. woodhousei, Baird, Breicer, <§• Ridgw. in 



N.-Am. B. ii. p. 291. 

 Aphelocoma tloridana, var. woodhousei, Coues, B. N. West, p. 219. 



Head and hind neck greyish cobalt, lores and feathers round the 

 eye dusky blackish, as also the ear-coverts, the latter being shaded 

 with blue ; over the eye a narrow streak of silvery-tipped feathers, 

 and below the eye a few more plumes tipped with silvery white ; 

 sides of face and neck and sides of neck diill blue ; fore part of the 

 cheeks spotted with white ; mantle and scapulars drab-brown, the 

 latter washed externally with dull blue ; wings greyish cobalt ; the 

 quills blackish, blue only on the outer web ; lower back and rump 



