29. CVAXOCOEAX. 127 



blackish brown ; the rest of the body intense violet-blue ; bill and 

 feet black. Length I ft. 4^ inches. (Peheln, I.e.) 

 Hah. Rio Boraxudo, near Paranagua {Natterer). 



14. Cyanocorax ornatus. 



Pica omata, Less. Rev. Zuol. 1839, p. 41. 



Cvanocorax ornatus, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 307; 8cl. P. Z. S. IS-S?, 



'p. i'04, 1859, p. 365 ; Schl. Miis. P.-B. Coraces, p. 47. 

 Cvanocitta ornata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 144 ; Scl. 8i 8alv. Ibis, 18.59, p. 21 ; 



'Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 381 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 143 ; Scl. ^- !Salv. 

 Nomencl. Av. Xeotr. p. 39. 

 Cyauocitta cj'anicoUis, Liclit. Nomoicl. p. 9. 

 Cyanurus ornatus, Gray, Haiid-l. B. ii. p. 4. 



Adult. General colour above deep ultramariue, the tail rather 

 brighter, and having a slight cast of verditer-blue under certain 

 lights ; wings coloured like the back, the quills blackish on the 

 inner web, excepting the inner secondaries, which are deep ultra- 

 marine like the back ; hind necli and mantle black, occupying also 

 the sides of the neck and joining underneath the fore neck, which 

 is also black like the entire thi-oat ; rest of under surface of body 

 deep ultramarine, the under wing-coverts black, shaded with blue ; 

 lores and nasal bristles black, as also the entire sides of the face, 

 feathers round the eye and frontal band of plumes, which are of a 

 velvety nature ; hinder head and nape cobalt-blue, separated from 

 the black fore part of the head by a narrow band of silvery white, 

 which follows the margin of the black down the sides of the occiput 

 to behind the ear-coverts, separating the black from the blue aU the 

 way. Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 1-35, wing 5-35, tail 6-1, 

 tarsus I'To. 



Hah. Central America from Mexico to Veragua. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Jalapa, Mexico. P. de Oca [C.]. 



c. Ad. St. Mexico. Purchased. 



(/. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



e. Ad. sk. Guatemala. Purchased. 



/. Ad. sk. Veragua. M. E. Arce [C.]. 



15. Cyanocorax pumilo. 



Cyanocorax nanus ?, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 122, pi. 33. 



Cyanocorax pumilo, Strickl. t. c. p. 122. 



Cyanocitta pumilo, Bp. Consp. i. p. 378 ; Scl. •^- Sali: Ibis, 1859, p. 



21 ; id. Xurnencl. Ai: Xeufr. p. 39. 

 Cyanurus pumilio, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. o. 



Adult. General colour deep smalt-blue ; quills blackish on inner 

 web, externally blue like the back, the inner secondaries entirely 

 blue ; tail deep blue, the inner web inclining topuiplish brown; head 

 ultramarine, forming a cap which contrasts with the blue of the back; 

 lores and forehead, feathers round the eye, sides of face black ; the 

 black forehead separated fiom the crown by a tiny line of silveiy 

 white feathers, in the form of a row of dots ; throat blackish with a 



