6IEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 327 



Garndus casruZcscens Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, xii, 1817, 480 ("Ken- 

 tucky " ).—Ord, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1818, 347. 



P[ica] CiBreZesoms Wagleb, Syst. Av., 1827, Pica, sp. 11. 



Corvus floridanus Bonapaetb, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ii, 1828, 58 (based on 

 Corvus floridanus, pica glandaria minor, the little jay of Florida, Bartram, 

 Travels, g. 290.).— Nuttall, Man. Orn. V. S. and Can., i, 1832, 230.— 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 444, pi. 87. 



Garrulus floridanus Bonaparte, Am. Orn., ii, 1828, 59, pi. 14, fig. 1. — Audubon, 

 Synopsis, 1839, 154; Birds Am., oot. ed., iv, 1842, 118, pi. 233.— Schlegel, 

 Mus. Pays-Bas, Ooraces, 1867, 64, part (Florida). 



Oyanurus floridanus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 495. 



lOyanurus'] floridanus Geay, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 4, no. 6096. 



Oyanocorax floridanus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 27. 



lOyanocitta'] floridanus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 377. 



OyanocUta floridana Baird, Rep. Pacific E. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 586; Oat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 439.— Taylor, Ibis, 1862, 129.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 360.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, ii, 1871, 298, excl. syn. part 

 (Dummitts and Blue Springs, e. Florida). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridqway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 285, pi. 40, fig. 4.— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1875, 346 (nomencl.).— M.vynard, Birds E. N. Am., 1881, 164. 



Alphelocomal floridana Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Oct., 1851, 221, footnote. — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 423.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 355. 



[Aphelocomal floridana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 166. 



Aphelocoma floridana CouBS, Check List, 1873, no. 236; 2d ed., 1882, no. 354. — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 117. — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 291. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 479.— Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 319 (Gulf coast Florida, north of Puuta Rassa) .— 

 Bendiee, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 370, pi. 5, fig. 13 (egg).— Nehr- 

 LiNG, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 324. 



lAphelocoma floridana var. woodhousa] a. flondana Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 219 

 (synonomy). 



APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA CALIFORNICA (Vigors). 

 CALIFORNIA JAY. 



Similar to A. cyanea, but entire pileum uniform blue (deeper blue 

 than in A. cyanea), margined laterally by a superciliary line of white 

 streaks; back browner and rather darker gray; chin, throat, and chest 

 purer white; sides and flanks paler (dull white instead of distinctly 

 grayish). 



Adults {sexes alilce). — Entire pileum, hindneck and sides of neck 

 uniform dull cobalt blue; suborbital, malar, and auricular regions 

 similar but darker, especialh^ the last, which is sometimes quite dusky; 

 back brownish mouse gray or drab-gray; scapulars and rump more 

 bluish gray; wings, tail, and upper tail-coverts rather dull azure blue; 

 chin, throat, and median portion of chest white, the last more or less 

 streaked with blue, especially the posterior portion, where the feathers 

 are mainly white with blue edges; sides of chest uniform blue; breast 

 very pale drab-gray fading into dull white on other under parts, the 

 anal region and shorter under tail-coverts pure white, the longer under 



