1907. BIRDS FROM GUATEMALA DEARBORN. in 



soil, quite different from the habitat of typical azurea. Specimens 

 from localities marked I are intermediate between typical azurea and 

 the pale interior form. 



177. Psilorhinus mexicanus cyanogenys Gray. 



Two of this species were collected at Izabel by Heller and Barber, 

 and four were collected by the writer at Los Amates. It was abundant 

 and noisy in the latter locality. None were found elsewhere. Two 

 of these specimens were evidently immature, having yellow bills and 

 feet. Their bills had begun at the apex and along the culmen to 

 turn black, and their feet were growing dusky from the ankle down- 

 ward. These jays moved about in flocks, keeping close to the shelter 

 of the woods. Iris dark brown ; bill and feet of immature birds yellow, 

 of adults black. 



178. Xanthoura luxuosa vivida Ridgway. 



Two were taken near Patulul, the only locality in which this jay 

 was seen. Here it kept in the tops of high trees in heavy timber, 

 and was rarely seen or heard. Iris yellow. 



179. Cissolopha melanocyanea (Hartlaub). 



This species was first seen at Fiscal, some 20 miles from Guatemala 

 City, on the road from El Rancho. Four were secured at Lake Ama- 

 titlan and three at Lake Atitlan. Others were seen at about 6,000 

 feet on the way from the latter lake to Tecpam, the vertical range 

 being approximately from 4,000 to 6,000 feet. This jay was usually 

 seen in roadside shrubbery and in thickets of small trees. Iris greenish 

 yellow; bill of adults black, of immature specimens, more or less 

 yellow. 



180. Cyanocitta stelleri coronata Swainson. 



Seven birds were taken in the neighborhood of Tecpam at altitudes 

 varying from 6,500 to 9,500 feet, and a nest with a set of four eggs 

 was secured near Chimaltenango, on the road from Tecpam to Guate- 

 mala City, April i6th. This nest, which is made principally of grass, 

 and strengthened around the outside by having a few oak twigs woven 

 in, was set in a crotch of a small oak tree about 15 feet from the 

 ground. The tree had no leaves, as the dry season was still on, 

 so the nest and the sitting bird were in full view to all who passed 

 that way. The embryos were large and one of the eggs was ruined 

 in blowing, but the other three and the nest were tied up in a focusing 



