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be the 0. macrolophus, as shown by the wliitish on the forehead and over the eye ; the description, 

 however, answers sufiSciently well to C. stelleri. 



The Pica cyanochlora of Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, No. 9, Pica, and the Graculus (error for 

 Garrulus) melanogaster, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XII, 1817, 478, referred to this species by authors, 

 do not answer at all to it. 



lAst of specimens. 



CYANURA MACROLOPHUS, Baird. 

 liong-crested Jay. 



Cyanocilta macroloplia, Baird, Pr. A. N. Sc. Pliila. VII, June, 1854, 118. Albuquerque. 



? Qarrulus stelleri, Swainson, F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 2U4 ; pi. liv. The plate, probably, if not the description. Head 

 w.iters of Columbia- Not Cormts stelleri of Gmelin. 



Sp. Ch. — Crest nearly twice the length of the bill. Tail moderately graduated; the lateral feathers about .60 of an inch 

 Bhortcr than the middle. Fourth and fifth quills longest ; second shorter than the secondaries. Head all round, throat and fore 

 part of the breast, black, the crest with a gloss of blue ; rest of back dark ashy brown with a gloss of greenish. Under parts, 

 rump, tail coverts, and outer surfaces of primaries, greenish blue ; greater coverts, secondaries, and tertials, and upper surface 

 of tail feathers, bright blue, banded with black ; forehead streaked with opaque white, passing behind into pale blue ; a white 

 patch over the eye. Chin grayish. Length, 12.50 ; wing, 5.85 ; tail, 5.85 ; tarsus, 1.70, (8351.) 



/fail. — Central lino of Rocky mountains to table lands of Mexico. 



This sjiecies is very similar to the C. stelleri, hut is readily distinguishable on comparison 

 The most striking peculiarities are the much longer and fuller crest, the streaks on the forehead 

 white, not blue ; and the white patch over the eye, not found at all in stelleri. The head is 

 much blacker ; the crest feathers having also a gloss of blue, instead of opaque dark brown. 

 The back is dusky bluish ash, not opaque brown. The chin is more gray; the blue of the 

 breast extends further forward and is much less abruptly defined. The black bands on the 

 wing feathers are more distinct, especially those on the greater coverts, which, obsolete in 

 stelleri, are very conspicuous in the other. 



