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greyish ; the upper tail-coverts and tail cobalt, some of the tail- 

 feathers blackish along the edge of their inner webs ; throat and 

 fore neck white, somewhat streaked with ashy, many of the feathers 

 being margined with this colour, those of the fore neck being edged 

 with bluish ash-colour ; rest of the under surface of the body light 

 drab-brown, fading into whitish on the lower abdomen ; under 

 wing- and tail-coverts light greyish blue ; bill and legs black. Total 

 length 10-5 inches, culmen l*o, wing 4'y5, tail 5-05, tarsus 1*55. 



Female. Similar to the male. Total length 10*5, culmen 1'15, 

 Aving 5, tail o'-i, tarsus 1"5. 



Hub. Rocky Mountains and middle province of United States. 



a. c? ad. sk. Apache, Aiizoua (^H. W. Smithsonian Institution [P.]. 



Henshaw). 



b. 5 ad. sk. Arizona (Neicherry). Smithsonian Institution [P.]. 



c. (S ad. sk. El Paso Countv, Colorado, Purchased. 



March 9, 18'73. 

 (I. S ad.sk. El Paso Coimty, Colorado, Pui'chased. 

 Oct. 22, 1873. 



e. 5 'id. sk. El Paso County, Colorado, Purchased. 



Nov. 2-2, 1873. 



f. (S juv.sk. Apisha-Pau Creek, Colo- Pmchased. 



rado. 



4. Aphelocoma ultramarina. 



Garrulus ultramarinus, Bp. Journ. Acad. N. Set. Phi/ad. 8vo, iv. 



p. 386 ; Temm. PL Col. ii. pi. 439. 

 Cyanocitta idtramarina, Strickl. Ann. S/- May. N. H. xv. p. 260 ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 378 ; Bainl, Brewer, i^- Pidt/w. N.-Amer. B. ii. p. 284. 

 Cyanurus ultramarinus. Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 4. 



Incumbent setaceous feathers of the base of the bill partly black 

 and partly blue; whole plumage above, including the wings and 

 tail, bright azure, most vivid and somewhat sericeous on the head 

 and tail-coverts, duller and slightly intermixed with dusky on the 

 back ; inner webs and tips of the quill-feathers dusky ; shafts of the 

 wing- and tail-feathers black ; lores black ; checks dull blackish 

 blue ; chin whitish, intermixed with black bristles ; whole inferior 

 surface dirty whitish, more tinged with cinereous on the anterior 

 parts, and becoming purer towards the vent; inferior wing- and 

 tail-coverts slightly intermixed with blue ; inferior surface of the 

 wings and of the tail dusky grey, the latter darker ; wings, when 

 closed, reaching almost to the middle of the tail, which is seven 

 inches long, and perfectly even at tip. Length thirteen inches ; 

 bill one inch and a half long, strongly notched at tip, and with the 

 feet black. {Bonaparte, I. c.) 



Hah. Mexico. 



Ohs. This species is not at present represented in the Museum ; 

 and I am only able to judge of its distinctness by the observations 

 given by the authors of the ' North-American Birds.' They do not 

 seem to be well acquainted with the species either, and separate it 



