BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEBIOA. 349 



Temperate eastern North America, except peninsula of Florida; 

 north on Atlantic coast to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New 

 Brunswick (resident), etc., in the interior to about latitude 52°, 

 casually to 56°; west to eastern Assiniboia, eastern North and South 

 Dakota, eastern half of Nebraska, eastern two-thirds of Kansas, 

 eastern Oklahoma and eastern half (approximately) of Texas; south 

 to the Gulf coast, except in Florida. 



IConmsl aistaius Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 106 (based on the Blew 

 Jay Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 13, pi. 13; Tlie Blue Jay, Pica glandaria • 

 carolinensis ceerulea, Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist, v, 60, pi. 239; Le Geay 

 bleu, du Canada, Brisson, Orn. ii, 55; Buffon, PI. Col., pi. 529); ed. 12, i, 

 1766, 157.— Gmblin, Syst. Nat, i, 1788, 369.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 

 158. 



Corims cristatus Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1808, 11, pi. 1, fig. 1. — Doughty, Cab. Nat. 

 Hist., 1832, 62, pi. 6.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., iii, 1828, 58.— Nuttall, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 224.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 11; 

 V, 1839, 475, pi. 102. 



Oarrulus cmfeiiiis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xii, 1817, 477; Enc. M6tli., 

 ii, 1823, 890; Gal. Ois., 1834, 160, pi. 102.— Swainson and Eichaedson, 

 Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 293. — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 154; Birds Am., 

 oet. ed., iv, 1842, 110, pi. 231.— Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 192 

 (Indiana; Missouri). — Schlegbl, Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 62. — ^Teippe, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871, 177 (Minnesota, resident). 



P[ica] cristato Wagler, Syst. Av., 1827, Pica, sp. 8. 



Oyanurus cristatus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 495. — Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 E. E. Surv.,^ix, 1858, 580.— Dkbsseb, Ibis, 1865, 494 (s. Texas).— Coues, 

 Check List, 1873, no. 234, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 214; Bull. U. S. «eol. 

 andGeog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 607 (Pembina, North Daliota).— McChes- 

 NEY, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 80 (Fort Sisseton, 

 South Dakota). 



[Oyanurus] cristatus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 3, no. 6085. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 165, part. 



Oyanura cristata Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 434. — Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 

 8 (Forks of Saskatchewan). — Baied, Beewee, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 273, part, pi. 42, fig. 3.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.,iii, 

 1872, 138 (Fort Hays, w. Kansas, abundant), 178 (e. Kansas). 



Clyanura'] cristata Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 112 (n. e. Illinois, abt. 

 resid. ) . 



Oyanocorax cristatus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 27. — Woodhouse, 

 in Eep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 77 (Indian Territory; 

 Texas). ' 



Clyanocorax] cristatus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 307. 



Oyanocitta cristata Strickland, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xv, 1845, 261. — Sclater, 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 142.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 289 (vie. 

 New York City).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 107 (Toronto, 

 Ontario; Ann Arbor, Michigan; 49th Parallel).— Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, v, 1880, 98; Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 349.— Eidgway, Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 289, part; Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 335.— Chamberlain, 

 Bull. N. H. Soc. New Bruns., i, 1882, 43 (New Brunswick, resid.).— Nehe- 

 ling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 168 (s. e. Texas, breeding) ; Our Native 

 Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 317, pi. 17, fig. 1.— Ogilby, Scient. Proc. Eoy. Dubl. 



