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CISSILOPHA BEECHEII (Vigors). 

 BEEOHEY'S JAY. 



Adults {sexes itlihi). — Head, neck, and under parts (except thighs 

 and under tail-coverts) uniform black; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 dull hyacinth or dark cyanine blue; upper parts (except pileum and 

 hindneck) uniform rich smalt blue; under surface of wings and tail 

 slate-black; bill usually black, sometimes yellow; iris yellow;" legs 

 and feet yellow. (Young not seen.) 



Admit male.— L,&a.^\h. (skins), 362-413 (380); wing, 164.5-175 (171); 

 tail, 176.5-199 (187.5); bill from nostril, 27-30.5 (28); depth of bill at 

 nostrils, 11-15.5 (14.5); tarsus, 48.5-50 (49.5); middle toe, 28.5-30.5 

 (30).* 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 345.5-368.5 (354.5); wing, 155.5- 

 171.5 (167); tail, 165-186.5 (179.5); bill from nostril, 25-27.5 (26.5); 

 depth of bill at nostrils, 14.5-15.5 (15); tarsus, 47-62 (50); middle toe, 

 27.5-31 (29.5).-^ 



States of Sinaloa (Mazatlan, Culiacan, etc.) and southern Sonora 

 (north to Alamos), northwestern Mexico; State of Jalisco (San Bias)?. 



Pica 6e6c/im Vigors, Zool. Journ., iv, Jan., 1829, 353 (Montereale'^, a.w. Mexico); 



Zool. Voy. "Blossom," 1839, 22, pi. 6. 

 Fica heecJieyil Baikd, in Stansbury's Great Salt Lake, 1853, 333 (Monterey). 

 C[yanolyca] beechii Oabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Oct., 1851, 223, footnote. 

 Cyanolyca beechcyi Salvia and Godmax, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 497 



(Mazatlan and Tres Marias, Sinaloa; San Bias, Colima). — Lantz, Trans. 



Kans. Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 222 (Culiacan, Sinaloa). 

 [CyanocUta] /(ear/ni Bonaparte, Consp. Ay., i, 1850, 378 ("Monterey"). 

 Oyanocorax beecheyi Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Goraces, 1867, 44 ("Califor- 

 nia"). — FiNscH, Abh. nat. Verb. Brem., i, 1870, 333 (Mazatlan). 

 [Cyanurus] beecheii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 4, no. 6101 ("California;" w. 



Mexico). 

 Oyanodtta beecheii Sclater and Salvis, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, 269, 270 



(crit.). 

 Oyanodita beecheyi La^veencb, Mem. Boat. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 283 (Mazatlan; 



"Tres Marias"; habits). 

 Cyanocitta beecheyii Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 592. 

 Xanthura beecheii Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 133 (n. w. Mexico). 

 \_Oym}ocitta\ beecheyii Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 39 (w. 



Mexico). 

 C[issolopha1 beecheii Ridqway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 350, footnote, in text. 

 Cissolopha beecheyi Nelson, North Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1899, 50 (Tres Marias, fide 



Xantus; doubtful!). 



ha beecheii Stone, Proo. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1891, 444. 



""Iris and feet gamboge yellow" (Xantus, manuscript). 

 6 Six specimens. 

 "Four specimens. 



Two specimens from Alamos, Sonora, have much more slender bills than any from 

 the State of Sinaloa, but I am not able to discern any other difference. 

 'I I have not been able to identify this locality. 



