354 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CYANOCITTA STELLERI CARLOTT^ Osgood. 

 OSGOOD'S JAY, 



Similar to G. s. stell&ri, but larger and decidedly darker, the blue 

 of a more violet hue (dull cyanine or approaching hyacinth blue on 

 secondaries and rectrices, the rump, upper tail-coverts and posterior 

 under parts dull antwerp blue), the back and foreneck slightly sooty 

 slate-black (decidedly less brown than in C. s. stelleri). 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 310-322 (317.2) wing, 155.5-161 

 156.2); exposed cuhnen, 29-32 (30.4); tarsus, 46.5-49.5 (48); niiddle 



toe, 26-28 (27.1).« 



Adult female.— Length (skin), 324; wing, 162; tail, 152.5; exposed 

 culmen, 30.5; tarsus, 48; middle toe, 28.* 



Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia; also southern portion 

 (at least) of Prmee of Wales Island (Howkan). 



CyanociMa stelleri carlottx Osgood, Nortli Am. Fauna, no. 21, Sept., 1901, 46 

 (Cumshewa Inlet, Moresby I., Queen Charlotte group, British Columbia; 

 coll. IT. S. Nat. Mus.).— American Oenithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, xix, 1902, 321 (Check List no., 478d) .—Fisher (W. K.), Condor, iv, 

 1902, 41, 42, 43 (crit.; geog. range). 



CYANOCITTA STELLERI CARBONACEA Grinnell. 

 GRnrNELL'S JAY. 



Similar to C. s. stelleri, but paler throughout, and averaging slightly 

 smaller; color of head very nearly as in C. s. stelleri^ but averaging 

 browner or more sooty, the forehead always conspicuously streaked 

 with blue, and throat more extensively or uniformly pale grayish; 

 back and foreneck much paler, slaty brown or brownish slate, instead 

 of deep sooty; blue of rump, upper t^,il-co verts, and under parts of 

 body light dull cerulean or verditer blue, advancing more over chest, 

 where more abruptly defined against the sooty or brownish slate color 

 of foreneck. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 275-317 (280.8); wing, 140.5-158 

 (150.5); tail, 134-146 (140); exposed culmen, 27-31.5 (29.1); tarsus, 

 42-46 (44.5); middle toe, 22.5-25 (23.8).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 254^290 (276); wing, 136-147 (143); 

 tail, 125-138 (131); exposed culmen, 25-29.5 (27.7); tarsus, 39-45 

 (42.7); middle toe, 22-25 (23.7).'*' 



Coast district of California and Oregon, from Monterey County, 

 California, to the Columbia River." 



oFour specimens, from Skidegate and Cumshewa Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands. 



b One specimen, from Howkan, Prince of Wales Island. 



"Nine specimens. 



(^Ten specimens. 



« Intergrading with C. s. frontalis in the district between Monterey County and 

 the San Bernardino Mountains, and from the eastern slope of the northern Coast 

 Range to Trinity Mountains and Mount Shasta; intergrading with C. s. steUeri in the 

 district between the lower Columbia River and Puget Sound. 



