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r. Larger (wing averaging 195, tail 195.5); bill much larger (length from nostril 

 averaging 27.5, depth at nostrils 15.5); white tips to retrices smaller (that 

 on inner web of outermost averaging 32); under parts less purely white. 



(Guatemala to Costa Rica.) Psilorhinus mexicanua cyanogenys (p. 301) 



(•('. Smaller (wing averaging 187, tail 190) ; bill much'smaller (length from nostril 

 averaging 24, depth at nostrils 14.5); white tip to rectrices larger (that on 

 inner web of outermost averaging 44.5); under parts more purely white. 

 (Yucatan. ) Psilorhiims mexicanus vooiferus (p. 303) 



PSILORHINUS MORIO MORIO (^Wagle^). 

 BROWN JAY. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Head and neck plain dark sooty brown, fading 

 gradually into uniform grayish brown or sepia on back, scapulars, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts; wings and tail plain deep olive-grayish, 

 appearing more bluish or glaucous in certain lights; dark sooty color 

 of throat fading on chest into light grayish brown or drab, this into 

 very pale brownish gray or dull grayish white on remaining under 

 parts; bill wholly black, wholly yellow, or partly of both colors; iris 

 brown?; legs and feet j^ellow or black or partly of both colors. 



Younij. — Not essentially, if at all, different in coloration from 

 adults. 



Adxolt TOa/e.— Length (skins), 397.5-442 (421); wing, 201.9-215.9 

 (208.5); tail, 210.3-226.1 (218.2); bill from nostril, 26.2-31.7 (28.4); 

 depth of bill at nostrils, 15.5-16.5 (16); tarsus, 47.5-52.1 (50); middle 

 toe, 30.5-84.3 (32.3)." 



Adult female.— Liength (skins), 393.5-426.5 (414); wing, 198-206 

 (202); tail, 200.5-214.5 (209); bill from nostril, 25.5-28 (26.5); depth 

 of bill at nostrils, 15-15.5 (15.5); tarsus, 49.5-51.5 (50.5); middle toe, 

 30-33 (31).» 



Northeastern Mexico, in States of Nuevo Leon (Boquillo; China; 

 Monterey), Tamaulipas (Montemorelos; Alta Mira), and in arid districts 

 of San Luis Potosi, Hidalgo, and Vera Cruz. 



Plica] morio Wagler, Isis, 1829, 751, part" (Mexico; ex Corvus morio Lichten- 



stein, manuscript). 

 Pica morio Waglee, Isis, 1831, 527. — Schlbgbl, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ooraces, 1867, 



44, part (Mexico). 

 Corvus morio Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 1; Journ. fur Orn. 1863, 



56 (reprint). — Eydoux and Gbrvais, Voy. "Favorite," ,v, Zool., 1839, 54 



("San Francisco, California"). 

 Psilorh'mus morio Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 51. 

 P[nlorhinus'] morio Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 308. — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 



2d ed., 1884, 419.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 352, part.— Stone, 



Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.,' 1891, 94, 95, 96, part (crit). 

 IPsiloiliinus'] morio Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 381. — Gray, Hand-list, ii, 



1870, 6, no. 6127.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 164.— Sclatee and 



Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr. 1873, 40, part. 



« Seven specimens. 6 Four specimens. « Based on young. 



