296 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



187-193.5 (191); tail, 284.6-334(306.5); exposed culmen, 30.5-33 (31); 

 depth of bill at nostrils, 12.5-15 (14.5); tarsus, 42-46 (44.5); middle 

 toe, 28-30 (29. 5). « 



Admit female. — Similar to adult male, but somewhat smaller and 

 with the crown and occiput more or less blue (sometimes entirely blue 

 except along lateral edges); length (skins), 482.5-514.5 (490.6); wing, 

 178-193.6 (183); tail, 267-314 (287.5); exposed culmen, 29-34 (30.6); 

 depth of bill at nostrils, 12.5-14 (13.5); tarsus, 39^1:5.5 (42.5); njiddle 

 toe, 28.5-30 (29:5) » 



Southwestern Mexico, from the States of Colima and Puebla to 

 Oaxaca. 



Pica formosa Swainson, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 437 (Temascaltepec, 



Mexico). 

 lOyanurus] formosus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 495, in text. 

 Calodtta formosa Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 381 (Oaxaca; crit. ). — 



La-vveencb, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 285 (Colima; Manzanilla Bay; 



Rio de la Armeria). — Lawrence, Bull. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 24 



(Juchitan and Tehuantepec City, Oaxaca). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



iii, 1877, 88, part (Oaxaca; San Juan del Rio). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1883, 423 (Acapulco, Guerrero). — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., ix, 1886, 153 (Chietla, Puebla). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Aves, i, 1887, 508, part (Mexican references and localities). — Stone, 



Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.,' 1891, 442 (M-exico). 

 [Calodtta] formosa Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 40, part 



(Mexico). 

 C\_alocitta'\ formosa Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 350, footnote, part 



(Mexico). 

 Pica buUockii Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827,. fol. 11, p. 6 (Mexico). — Schlegel, Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 43 (e. Mexico). 

 ClalocUtal buUocMi Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 50, part. 

 lOyaimrus'] iuHocK Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 380 ("Vera Cruz"). 

 Clallicitta'] 6«Hocfci Oabanis, Mus. Heiri., i, 1851, 225 (Mexico). 

 Oarrula gubernatrix Temminck, PI. Col., ii (livr. 73, Jan. 1828), pi. 436 (Mexico; 



Leyden Mus. ) . 

 P[silorhinus'] gubernatrix Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 308. 

 Cyanurus gubernatrix Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1850, 84 (Mexico). 



CALOCITTA FORMOSA AZUREA Nelson. 

 CENTRAL AKERICAN HAGFIE-JAY. 



Similar to 0. f. formosa^ but more brightly colored (back, scapulars, 

 and wings dull cerulean or glaucous blue instead of gray), crown and 

 occiput bright (deep flax-flower or azure) blue, sides of, head entirely 

 white," or bluish white (except a black post-auricular spot), white tips 



« Six specimens. 



*Five specimens 



«The blackish triangular malar patch of C. f. formosa sometimes indicated in speci- 

 mens from Chiapas, but in all specimens examined from Guatemala and southward 

 entirely absent. In many specimens the sides of head, and occasionally the chin, 

 strongly tinged with flax-flower blue. 



