-124 CORVID.E. 



blackish gii-y ; iris citron-yellow" (Neuwied). Total length 13"5 



inches, culmen 1-25, wing 6, tail 6-8, tarsus 1"8. 

 Hub. Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Brazil. 



6. Ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claiissen [P.]. 



e, d. Ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased. 



e. Ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased. 



f. Skeleton. Brazil. Zoological Society. 



8. Cyanocorax mystacalis. 



Pica mystacalis, Geof. St.-Hilaire, Mag. de Zool. 1835, pi. 34. 

 Cyanocora.x mystacalis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 307 ; Sol. Sf Salt. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 39. 

 Cyanocorax uroleucus, Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 115. 

 Cyanocorax bellus, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 60. 

 Cyanurus mystacalis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 6. 



Adult. Above purplish blue, much brighter and inclining to ultra- 

 marine on the wings ; the quills greyish black, externally blue, the 

 inner secondaries entirely of the latter colour ; tail pure white, the 

 two centre feathers ultramarine blue, brighter than the back,' tipped 

 with white, the extreme end shaded with lavender-grey, the next 

 two feathers with more or less of a blue shade near the base of the 

 tail ; frontal plumes recurved, black, as also the crown of the head, 

 which is shaded with blue on the hinder margin of the black cap ; 

 occiput, nape, hinder part of the neck, and upper part of mantle 

 snow}^ white ; lores and feathers below the cj^e, ear-coverts, and 

 sides of neck, entire throat and fore neck black ; a small patch of 

 feathers above the eye, another below the hinder part of the latter, 

 and cheeks (forming a broad moustachial band) silvery white slightly 

 shaded with cobalt ; rest of under surface of body, including the 

 under wing- and tail-coverts, pure white. Total length 12-3 inches, 

 culmen 1*45, wing 5-65, tail 5-75, tarsus 1'7. 



Hah. Ecuador. 



a. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Capt. Kellett and Lieut. Wood [P.]. 



h, c. Ad. sk. Ecuador. J. Gould, Esq. 



9. Cyanocorax cyanomelas. 



Arraca morada, Azara, A^mnt. i. p. 250. 



Pica cyanomelas, Vieill. A. Did. d'Hid. Nat. xxvi. p. 127. 



Pica cyanonielfena, War/ler, Syst. Av. Pica, sp. 24. 



Garrulus cyanomelas, Lnfr. ^- D'Orb. Si/n. p. 9. 



Cyanocorax cyanomelas, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 307 ; Hartl. Ind. Azara, 



p, 4 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 379 ; Sckl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 47 ; Pelz. 



Orn. Bras. pp. 190, 430 ; Scl. * Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 40. 

 Coronoideus cyanomelas, Btirm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 287, note. 

 Cyanurus cyanomelas, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 0. 

 Corvus aenas, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 



Adidt fenude. General colour above and below violet- or drab- 



