BIRDS OP NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 343 



Oyanocitta uUramarina (not Corvus uUramarinus Bonaparte) Baikd, Rep. Pacific 



R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 588 (Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico) red. 1860 (Birds 



N. Am.), atlas, pi. 60, fig. 2; Rep. IT. S. and Hex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 



1859, 45, pi. 22, fig. 2 (Monterey west to Parrae) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 



no. 441. 

 lOyanurus] ultramarinm Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 4, no. 6095, part. 

 Aphelocoma uUramarina Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, '1887, 



493, part. 

 ClyaTwcitta'] coucUi Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 588, in text 



("Monterey," i. e., Guajuco, 18 miles s. e. of Monterey, Nuevo Leon; coll. 



U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 \_Oyanocvtla uUramarina'] var. couchi Baibd, Bkewbk, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 284. 

 OyanodUa uUramarina, var. couchi Baird, Beewbh, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 293. 

 [Aphelocoma uUramarina.] Subsp. a. Aphelocoma couchi Shabpe, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mug., iii, 1877, 116. 

 Aphelocoma uUramarina couchii Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 



185, 229. 

 Aphelocoma uUramarina couchi Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 294. 

 AljphelocomM] couchi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 357. 

 Aphelocoma couchi Miller, Auk, xiii, 1896, 34, 36, in text. — Bailey (Florence M. ), 



Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 276. 

 [Oyanocitta] sordida (not Garrulus sordidus Swainson) Solatek and Salvin, 



Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 39, part. 

 Aphelocoma sieberii couchi Obeeholser, Auk, xix, July, 1902, 300 (Chisos Mts., 



s. w. Texas). 



(?) APHELOCOMA ULTRAMARINA (Bonaparte). 

 ULTEAMAEINE JAY. 



Similar in size and coloration to A. sieberii sieberii, but tip of tail 

 "perfectly even" or truncated." 

 "Mexico." 



C\_orvus] uUramarinus Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, pt. ii, no. 12, 



May, 1825, 387 (Mexico). 

 [Oyanocitta] uUramarinus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 378. 



« "C. uUramarinus. Coeruleus subtus cinerascenti-albidus, cauda equali. 



"Length, thirteen inches. BUI one inch and a half long, strongly notched at tip, 

 and with the feet black; incumbent setaceous feathers of the base of the bill, partly 

 black and partly blue; wholes plumage above, including the vnngs and tail, bright 

 azure, most vivid and somewhat sericeous on the head and tail-coverts, duller and 

 slightly intermixed with dusky on the back; inner webs and tips of quill feathers 

 dusky; shafts of the wings and tail feathers black; lora black; c/icefa dull blackish 

 blue; chin whitish, intermixed with black bristles; whole inferior surface dirty whitish, 

 more tinged with cinereous- on the anterior parts, and becoming purer towards the 

 vent; inferior wing and tail-coverts slightly intermixed with blue; inferior surface of 

 the wings and of the tail dusky-gray, the latter darker; vnngs when closed reaching 

 almost to the middle of the tail, which is seven inches long, and perfectly even at 

 tip." (Original description.) 



This very doubtful form continues to be known only from Bonaparte's description, 

 quoted above. It is probably the same as one of the larger forma of A. sieberii, but 

 which one can not be determined without examination of the type. 



