BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 335 



the Colorado), 94 (San Francisco Mts., etc., Arizona). — Fisher, North Am. 

 Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 69 (White, Inyo, Argus, Coso, and Panamint mountains, 

 s. e. California; Charleston, Grapevine, Juniper, and Pahroc mountains, 

 Nevada; Beaverdam Mts., Utah).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893, 

 37 (Bisbee, s. Arizona).— Lowe, Auk, xi, 1894, 268 (Wet Mts., Colorado, 

 6,000 to 8,000ft.).— Bendiee, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 372, pi. 5, fig. 

 14 (egg).— Mitchell, Auk, xv, 1898, 309 (San Miguel Co., New Mexico, 

 breeding up to 8,000 ft.). 



Alphelocomal woodhousei'Ri'DGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 355. 



Aphelocoma woodhouseii BAiLEy (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. H., 1902, 274. 



[Oyanunis] woodhouseii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 4, no. 6097. 



APHELOCOMA CYANOTIS Ridgway. 

 BLTJE-OHEEKED JAY. 



Similar to A. woodhouseu, but wing decidedly longer and posterior 

 under parts (including under tail-coverts) white; back more frequently 

 tinged with blue, sometimes almost uniform blue; white superciliary 

 streak much reduced, sometimes obsolete. 



Male.— Length (skins), 277-302 (287.5); wing, 137.6-146 (140); tail, 

 138-147.5(148); exposed culmen, 26-28.5 (27); depth of bill at nos- 

 trils, 9.4-10 (9.6); tarsus, 39-42 (40.5); middle toe, 21-23 (22.5). « 



Female.— Length (skins), 269-282 (275); wing, 133-137 (135.5); tail, 

 134.5-140 (136.5); exposed culmen, 23.-5-26.5 (25); depth of bill at 

 nostrils, 9-9.6 (9.4); tarsus, 39-41.5 (40.5); middle toe, 20.5-22.5 (21).* 



Mexican plateau, in States of Mexico (City of Mexico, Tlalpam, D. 

 F.), Hidalgo (Real del Monte, El Chico, Tula, etc.), San Luis Potosi 

 (Jesus Maria, La Parada, mountains near Charcas, etc.). Coahuila (Car- 

 neros, Sierra Encarna<cion, Sierra Guadalupe, etc.), and Durango 

 (Cerro Prieto); north to southwestern Texas (Japonica, Kerr County; 

 Paisano, Brewster County; Sonera, Sutton County). 



OyanocUta woodhouseii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 585 (spec. no. 



8465, Mexico). 

 Cyanodtta califomica (not Oarrulus califomicus Vigors) Sclater and Salvin, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1869, 362, part, excl. syn. part (City of Mexico; 



Tierrafria?). 

 lOyanocitta] califomica Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 39, part. 

 {Oyanodtia califomica} var. sumichrasti (not Qyanodtta floridana vai. sumichrasti 



Ridgway, 1873) Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 



283, part (City of Mexico). 

 Aphelocoma sumichrasti Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 214, part (Mounts 



Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatapetl, Mexico, up to 11,000 ft.). 

 Alphelocoma'] cyanoiis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 357 (Mexico; coll. 



U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Aphelocoma cyanoiis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 592; 2d ed., 1896, 613.— 



Jouy, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 781 (25 m. s. of Charcas, San Luis 



Potosi, Mexico, 7,000-8,000 ft. ). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 



List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 480.1, part (Mexico); Auk, xix, 1902, 321 (Sutton Co., 



Texas).— Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 274. 



» Five specimens. ^ Three specimens, 



