BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 341 



Southern Arizona (Santa Catalina, Santa Rita, Huachuca, and Chiri- 

 cahua mountains), southwestern New Mexico (Grant County), and 

 northern parts of Sonora (Cachuta and Bavispc rivers, etc.) and Chi- 

 huahua (San Diego). 



CyanocUta sordida (not Oarrulus sordidus Swainson) Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 587, part (Copper Mines, Arizona); Rep. U. S. and Mex. 

 Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 21 (Copper Mines); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 no. 440.— CouES, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 92 (Fort Buchanan and 

 Copper Mines, Arizona). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 305, part (s. Arizona). 



[Apheloccyrna] sordida Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 166. 



Aphelocoma sordida Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 237. 



lOyanurus] sieberi (not Pica sieherii Wagler) Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 4, no. 6093, 

 part (Arizona). 



Oyanocitta idlramanna, var. arizonse Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Dec, 1878, 199 

 (Fort Buchanan, Arizona; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Baied, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 292.— Henshaw, Zool. Exp. W. 

 100th Merid., 1875, pi. 12. 



Oyanocitta idtramariyia . . var. arizonse Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1873 (1874), 124 (Camp Grant, etc., Arizona; habits); Zool. Exp. W. 

 100th Merid., 1875, 338 (30 miles s. of Apache, Camp Grant, and Rock 

 Canyon, Arizona; habits, etc.). 



[^Oyanocitta sordida^ var. arizonse Baied, Beewbe, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 41, flg. 2. 



\_Aphelocoma sordida.'^ Subap. a. Aphelocoma arizonse Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., iii, 1877, 117 (Fort Bayard, New Mexico; Camp Crittenden, Arizona). 



Aphelocoma sordida arizonse Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 185; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 295.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vi, 1881, 73 (Chiricahua Mts., s. Arizona); vii, 1882, 201 (Chiricahua and 

 Santa Rita mountains, Arizona; habits; descr. nest and eggs; crit. ). 



Aphelocoma sieberii arizonse TiioGw AY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 

 355. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 482. — Scott, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 81 (Santa Catalina Mts., s. Arizona; breeding habits; descr. 

 nest and eggs); iv, 1887, 20 (Santa Catalina Mts. ).— Allen, Auk, iv, 1887, 21 

 (crit.). — Bendiee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 554 (Fort Huachuca, 

 Arizona; habits; descr. nest and eggs); Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 

 380, pi. 5, figs. 19, 20 (eggs).— Bailey (Florence M. ), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 

 1902, 276. 



Alphelocoma] sieherii arizonse 'Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887,-357. 



Aphelocoma sieberi arizonse AlIjTS]^, BuW. Am. Mus. N. H., v, 1893,37 (Cachuta 

 and Bavispe rivers, n. e. Soriora; San Diego, n. w. Chihuahua). 



Aphelocoma ultramarina . var. arizonse Coues, Check List, 1874, p. 129 

 (no. 237). 



Aphelocoma ultramarina arizonse Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 357. 



Alphelocoma} ultramarina arizonse Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 424. 



Aphelocoma ultramarina (not Cormis ultramarinus Bonaparte) Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 493, part. 



APHELOCOMA SIEBERII WOLLWEBERI (Kaup). 

 ZAGATECAS JAY. 



Similar in coloration to A. s. arizonse, but much smaller; similar in 

 dimensions to A. s. potosina, but the blue of a light dull cerulean hue, 

 or intermediate between this and glaucous-blue; back and scapulars 



