CORVIDE, CROWS AND JAYS.—GEN. 100, 101. 165 
100. Genus CYANURUS Swainson. 
*.* Conspicuously crested; wings and tail blue, black-barred; bill and feet 
black. Length 11-12; wing or tail 5-6. 
Blue Jay. Purplish-blue, below pale purplish-gray, whitening on the 
throat, belly and crissum ; a black collar across the lower throat and up the 
sides of the neck and head behind the crest, and a black frontlet bordered 
with whitish ; wings and tail pure rich blue,-with black bars, the greater 
coverts, secondaries and tail feathers, except the central, broadly tipped with 
pure white ; tail much rounded, the graduation over an inch. Eastern North 
America, especially the United States, everywhere abundant. Wzurts., i, 2, 
ple l)f. 1; Aup.; iv, 110, pl. 231; Nurr., i, 224; Bp., 580. crisratus. 
Steller’s Jay. Sooty brown, darker on the head, passing insensibly into 
rich blue on the rump and below from the breast; wings and tail deep 
prussian blue, with black bars (wanting in very young birds) ; crest faced 
with some blue touches, and throat with some whitish streaks ; no white on 
Fig. 107. Steller’s Jay; long-crested variety. 
the eyelids ; tail moderately rounded ; crest about two inches long when full 
grown. Western North America; the typical bird rather northerly. Nurr., 
ii, 229; Avp., iv, 107, pl. 230; Bp., 581; Coop., 298.- . . sTELLERII. 
Var. macrotopuus. Long-crested Jay. Similar; head quite black; crest longer? 
the facing bluish-white, and some white touches on the eyelids. Southern Rocky 
Mountain region. Bp., 582; Eut., pl. 17; Coor., 300; Cours, Am. Nat. vy. 1871, 
770. 
101. Genus APHELOCOMA Cabanis. 
* .* Not crested; wings and tail blue, not barred. 
Florida Jay. Blue; back with a large well-defined gray patch, belly 
and sides pale grayish, under tail coverts and tibiz blue in marked contrast ; 
much hoary whitish on forehead and sides of crown; chin, throat and middle 
of breast vague streaky whitish; ear-coverts dusky; the blue that seems to 
encircle the head and neck well defined against the gray of back and breast ; 
bill comparatively short, very stout at the base. About 12; wing 5 or less; 
