CORVIDH, CROWS AND JAYS.—GEN. 96, 97. 163 
Var. FLoripANus Bp., 568, represents the greater relative size of the bill and 
feet shown by many birds of Florida and corresponding latitudes. 
Var. cAurtinus Bp., 569; Coop., 285, is a smaller race from the Pacific Coast ; 
maritime ; piscivorous ; voice said to be different. 
Fish Crow. Small; 14-16 inches long; wing 10-11; tail 6-7; tarsus 
about equal to middle toe alone; a bare space about the gape? South 
Atlantic and Gulf States, north to New England, common; maritime, 
piscivorous. Apparently a different bird, as it presents some tangible dis- 
tinctions, although constantly associated with the last. Wus., v, 27, pl. 
Sita Nort., 1, 216; Aup., iv, 94, pl. 226; Bp., 571. .. OSsIFRAGUS. 
96. Genus PICICORVUS Bonaparte. 
Clarke's Crow. Gray, often bleaching on the head; wings glossy black, 
most of the secondaries broadly tipped with white; tail white, the central 
feathers black ; bill and feet black. About 
a foot long ; wing 73-8 inches ; tail 43-5 ; 
bill 13; nasal feathers very short for this 
family ; claws very large and much curved. 
Coniferous belt of the West, N. to Sitka, 
S. to Mexico, E. to Nebraska, W. to the 
Coast Range; the American representa- 
tive of the European nuteracker, Nucifraga caryocatactes; abundant, imper- 
fectly gregarious. WHILS., iii, 29, pl. 20; Nurt., i, 2d ed. 251; Auvp., iv, 
IPA pl. 20; BD. 01a; Coop., 289, . . .-.. .*. . COLUMBIANUS: 
Fic. 104. Clarke’s Crow. 
97. Genus GYMNOKITTA Maximilian. 
Blue Crow. Dull blue, very variable in intensity, nearly uniform, but 
brightest on the head, fading on the belly; the throat with whitish streaks ; 
wings dusky on the inner webs; bill and feet 
black; g 11-12; wing about 6; tail about 44; 
bill 14; ¢@ smaller, duller. Rocky Mountain 
region ; much the same elevated distribution as 
the last, but apparently rather more southerly ; 
decidedly gregarious, and very abundant in 
ecg ee TON: some places, though still rare in collections. 
A remarkable bird, combining the form of a crow with the color and rather 
the habits of a jay, and a peculiarly shaped, slender, lengthened and acute 
bill; the antiz are prominent and somewhat antrorse, but do not hide the 
nostrils. Cass., Ill. 165, pl. 28; Bp., 574; Coop., 292. CYANOCEPHALUS. 
Subfamily GARRULIN A. Jays. 
With the wings much shorter than or about equalling the tail, both rounded, the 
tip of the wing formed by the 4th—7th quills. The feet, as well as the bill, are 
usually weaker than in the true crows, and the birds are more strictly arboricole, 
usually advancing by leaps when on the ground, to which they do not habitually 
