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NORTH AMKUICAN UlltUa 



Tlic! Itill ill tliis <,'L'ims is not unlike thnt of Stumtis ami Stumclla, and 

 conspicuous among Curvinw by its uncovered nostrils. 



O]annokitta oyanooephala, Pr. Max. 



MAXIMILIAN'S JAT 



Oi/mnorhinus q/anacfphahin, I'll. M.vxiMll i.\n, Iti'isc in dn.s iiiiii'vo Noril-Aiiiciikn, M, IS.ll, 

 21. — In. Voviif,'!' ilaiisrAiii. (Ill Noiil, III, lt*i;i, ^1)0. (Iiimiwk-illd ci/diiiicijiliiilii, " I'll. 

 M.\x. ISmi," Mr. ('uii.si)i(tii.s, ISj'iO, 382. — C'a.ssin, lllust. I, vi, 1S54, 1(>5, \>]. xxviii. 

 - Xkwiikuiiy, Hep. 1'. It. K. VI, iv, 1857, 83. — lUiiiD, Birds X. Am. 18.18, 074. - 

 M.VX. ('iil>. .1. VI, 18.18, 1U3. — Cool'Kli, Oiii. ('ill. I, 1870, 292. I'.silinliiiuis cijiino- 

 ccphalus, (llt.vv, (ifiifiii. t'lianucunu cassini, M't'.vi.L, I'r. A. N. Su. V, .luin.', 1801, 

 316. 



Sr. Char. \Viiij,'s considerably lonjjfcr tinui the tail, nnd rciicliinp: to within an inch of 



it.-! tip. Tail nt'iii'ly oven, (iciieral 

 color dull hliic, paler on the abdoiniMi, 

 the middle of whieli is liiifred with 

 .•i.<h ; the head and ncek of a inueh 

 dec'iier nnd more intense blue, darker 

 on the crown Chin and foivpiut of 

 llie throat whiti.sh, .streaked with lihic. 

 I.ciiirlii, lo.dtt; wiiijr, 5.00; tail, A'A); 

 taisii,-*, l..")ll. Young bird not difler- 

 in<r in niai'kin<<:.'i. 



IIaii. Hocky ^^onntaills of Colo- 

 rado, to Ca.fcade Mt.-i. of Califoni.a and 

 Orejj^on. Not on the Pacific coast? 

 South to New Mexico and Arizona. 



The foin.alc is appreciably dif- 

 ferent from the male, l)otli in size 

 and pluma<j;e, being smaller, and 

 of a light bluish-ash tint. This 

 difference is readily apprecialile when the birds are seen Hying. 



Hahiis. Ma.ximilian's Jay was discovered and first described liy that 

 eminent natundist, j\Iaximilian, Prince of Wied, in his book of travels in 

 North ^Vmorica, ])ublislied in 1841. Mr. Kdward Kern, who was connected 

 with Colonel Fremont's e.xjiloring expedition in 184(5, was the first to bring 

 specimens of this interesting and remarkable bird to the notice of American 

 naturalists, transmitting them to the Philadelphia Academy. The sjjeci- 

 meiis procured l)y its discoverer were met with by him on jMaria's River, 

 one of the tributaries of the U])])er Missouri, in the extreme northern 

 jiortion of our northwestern territory, a point much farther north than it 

 has 1)een met with by any other naturalist. As this species has since been 

 seen in largi; numbers in New Mexico, it may be presumed to extend its 

 movements over iptite an extended area of distribution in the region of the 

 Iiocky Mountains. 



Gtjmnokitta eyanocephala. 



