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■bill at nostrils, 10-10.7 (10.4); tarsus, 36.6-40 (38.5); middle toe, lil- 

 23.5 (21.5).« 



Adult female.— h&ngth. (skins), 254-374.5 (-264); wing, 112.5-118 

 (114.5); tail, 121.5-136.5 (127.5); exposed culmen, 23-27 (25); depth of 

 bill at nostrils, 9.5-11 (10); tarsus, 35-38.6 (36.5); middle toe, 20-22.5 

 (21).* 



Eastern edge of Mexican plateau, from States of Vera Cruz and 

 Puebla to Nuevo Leon (Monterey) and southern Tamaulipas (Victoria, 

 Alta Mira, etc.). 



P\ica\ chloronota, part, Waglek, Isis, 1829, 750 (description of supposed young 



male; Mexico). 

 Garrulus luxuosus Lesson, Rev. ZooL, Apr., 1839, 100 (Mexico). 

 Oyanocorax luxuosus Du Bus, Esquis. Orn., iv, 1848, pi. 18. — Sclatek, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1856, 300 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 



1864, 175 (Valley of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 144 (Mexico).— Sciile- 



GEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 53, part (Mexico). 

 [Cyanocoraxl luxuosus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 39, part 



(Mexico). 

 [Xanthoura] luxuosus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 380 (Mexico). 

 Xanihoura luxuosa Sdmichkast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 554 (hot and 



temp, regions Vera Cruz). — Fekrari-Peeez, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 



153 (Jalapa).— (?) Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1891, 444 (Mexico).— 



Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 30 (Jalapa). 

 XlaiOhowrd] luxuosa Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 358, part. 

 Xanthura luxuosa Sharpe, Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 132, part (Jalapa). — 



Sclater, Ibis, 1879, 88, part (crit. ). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, i, 1887, 502, part (Guanajuato; Valley of Mexico; Perote, Puebla; 



Cordova and Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 

 [Oyanocorax yncas.] Var. S. luxuosa Dubois, Bull. Ac. Roy. Belg., 2""= ser., 



xxxviii, 1874, 494, part (Mexico). 

 [Cyanurus'] luxuosus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 5, no. 6119 (Mexico). 

 Cyanocitta luxuosa Dugbs, La Naturaleza, i, 1869, 139 (Guanajuato). 



« Eight specimens. 

 6 Seven specimens. 



Specimens from northern and southern extremes of the range of this form average, 

 respectively, as follows: 



The specimens from Nuevo Leon are practically identical with those from Vera 

 Cruz and Puebla in coloration, in this respect differing quite obviously from Rio 

 Grande Valley examples (X. luxuosa glaucescens). 



