2{). CYAN'OUOltAX. li!l 



Pica pileata, Wiujler, St/st. Av. Pica, sp. 28. 



Cyaiiuriis pileatus, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Ainer. Birds, p. 49o ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 5. 

 Uroleiica pileata, Bp. (.'unsj). i. p. 379. 



Adult male. General colour above blackish, with a very slight 

 purple glo.ss, deepening into blackish purple on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts ; nasal bristles, forehead, and crown black, all the feathers 

 dense, and those of the front erect, the plumes of the crown forming 

 a thick crest ; nape silvery or greyish blue, deepening into purple 

 on the hind neck ; above the eye a spot of silvery cobalt ; below the 

 eye a second spot, and a patch at the base of the lower mandible, 

 purplish cobalt, the eye-spot slightly tinged with silvery blue on its 

 upper margin ; sides of face, throat, and chest rich velvety brownish 

 black ; rest of under surface creamy yellow ; wings like the back, 

 shaded with deeper purple on the quills ; tail-feathers deep purple, 

 tipped with creamv yellow, more broadly on the outermost feathers ; 

 " bill and legs black ; iris yellow " {Alan Peel, MS.). Total length 

 14 inches, culmeu 1-3, wing 6-3, tail7"l, tarsus 1-9. 



Hab. Southern Brazil; Uruguay; Paraguay. 



a. c? ad. sk. Uruguay, Dec. 16, 1875. Alan Peel, Esq. [C.]. 



b, c. Ad. St. Pn-azil. " Purchased. 



d. Sk<^>lPtou. Zoological Society. 



2. Cyano3orax diesingi. 



Cyanocorax diesingi, Pelzelu, Sitz. Akad. Wien, xx. p. I(i4 ; Heine, 



J.f. O. 18U0, p. 115 ; Pebrln, Orn. Brasil. ji. 189. 

 Cyanm'us diesingi, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 5. 



Head crested ; the sides of the neck, the thi-oat, and jugulum black ; 

 a spot above and behind the eye and a streak at the base of the 

 lower mandible bluish violet ; nape white, shaded with violet, chan- 

 ging into violet towards the back ; the back, the rump, the outer 

 aspect of the wings, and the upper surface of the tail violet ; the 

 wings inwardly and the under surface of the tail blackish brown ; 

 the lower wing-coverts, the breast, abdomen, vent, and the tips of 

 the tail-feathers white ; the bill and feet blackish. Total length 13 

 inches, wing 6. (Pelzeln, I. r.) 



Hah. Borba. Brazil (Nafterer). 



3. Cyanocorax affinis. 



Cyanocorax affinis, PeL. Sitz. Akad. Wien, xx. p. Ili4; Scl. Cat. Am. 



B. p. 145 ; Schl Mux. P.-B. (Horaces, p. 5.S : Scl. 8f Salv. Noimncl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 39. 

 Cyanurus affinis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 5. 



Adult. Above rich purplish brown, the upper tail-coverts and tail 

 deep purple, the latter broadly tipped wnth yellowish white ; wings 

 deep purple, the inner webs dark brown ; lores and frontal plumes, 

 which are recurved, black, as also are the crown and sides of the 



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