COEVIDiE, GROWS AND JAYS. — GEN. 100, 101. 165 



100. Genus CYANURUS Swainson. 



* it* Conspicuously crested; wings and tail blue, black-barred; bill and feet 

 black. Length 11-12 ; wing or tail 5-6. 



r-x4 Blue Jay. Purplish-blue, below pale purplish-gray, Avhitening on the 



' throat, belly and crissuiu ; a black collar across the lower throat and up the 



sides of the neck aud head behiud 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. WiiS., i, 2, 



pi. 1, f. 1; Aud., iv, 110, pi. 231; Nutt., i, 224; Bd., 580. ckistatus. 



(^ /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-cix'Sted. variety. 



the eyelids ; tail moderately rounded ; crest about two inches long Avhen full 

 grown.. Western North America; the t3'pical l)ird rather northerly. Nutt., 

 ii, 229; Aud., iv, 107, pi. 230; Bd., 581; Coop., 298. . . stelleiui. 

 Var. MACKOLOPiius. Long-crested .lay. Similar; head quite black ; crest longer? 

 the facing bluish-white, and some white touches on the ej'elids. Southern Rocky 

 Mountain region. Bd., 582 ; Ell., pi. 17 ; Coor., 300 ; Coues, Am. Nat. v. 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 tilnfe blue in marked contrast; 

 much hoary whitish on forehead aud sides of crown ; chin, throat and middle 

 of breast vague streaky whitish ; car-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 ; 



