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COETID^. 



Genus CYANOCOEAX, Boie. 



Cyanocorax chrysops {Vieill.). 



Cyanocorax chrysops, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 120 (1877) ; Chubb, 

 Ibis, 1910, p. 646 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 619 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. 

 Mersamml. p. 362 (1910). 



Eggs of the Urraca Jay vary in shape from a broad to a somewhat 

 pointed oval, and are slightly glossy. The ground varies from 

 greyish-white to oreamy-white and whitish-buff, and is generally 

 thickly freckled all over with yellowish-brown and lilao-grey, the 

 markings being usually most numerous at the broad end. In some 

 clutches the markings are small and comparatively speaking few, 

 in others they are much coarser and have a somewhat blotched 

 appeara'nce. In one abnormally coloured set the ground is pale 

 bluish-white with small very dark brown spots and ash-grey under- 

 markings, mostly concentrated about the large end. They vary 

 in length from 1-18 to 1*4, and in breadth from -88 to -98. 



S. Sapucay, 



3. Sapucay. 



8. Sapucay. 



2. Sapucay, 



2. Sapucay, 



3. Sapucay, 



4. Sapucay, 



2. Sapucay, 

 4. Sapucay, 



3. Sapucay, 



2. Sapucay, 



4. Sapucay, 



3. Sapucay, 

 2. Sapucay, 



2. Sapucay, 



3. Sapucay, 



4. Sapucay, 



Paraguay. 



1st Oct. 

 2nd Oct. 

 8th Oct. 

 11th Oct. 

 12th Oct. 

 13th Oct. 

 ISth Oct. 

 18th Oct. 

 19th Oct. 

 11th Nov. 

 12th Nov. 

 13th Nov. 

 22nd Nov. 

 4th Dec. 



W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 

 W. Foster, 



Cyanocorax affinis, Pelz. 



Cyanocorax affinis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 121 (1877) ; Scl. S,- 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 510 ; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. xxi. p. 290 

 (1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 619 (1909) ; Nehrh. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 862 (1910). 



Two eggs of the Colombian Jay do not differ in any way from 

 typical examples of O. chrysops, with the ground-colour whitish- 

 buff. They measure respectively : 1-36 by -96, and 1-32 by -99. 



2. Eemedios, Antioquia, CI.S. 

 Colombia (7". E. Salmon). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



