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region deep black; white spot above eye larger than in other 

 forms ; wing 5.50-5.95 (5.73), tail 5.00-5.75 (5.57), exposed culmen 

 .97-1.07 (1.02), tarsus 1.60-1.72 (1.67). Sab. Portions of southern 

 Mexico (Mirador, Orizaba, Xalapa, near city of Mexico, Oaxaca, 

 Sierra Madre of Colima, etc.) and south to Guatemala and Honduras. 



C. stelleri coronata (Swains.). Coronated Jay. 1 



Genus APHELOCOMA Cabanis. (Page 351, pi. C, fig. 2.) 



Species. 



a 1 . Lower parts chiefly light grayish or whitish. 

 ft 1 . Tail longer than wing. 



c 1 . Forehead and nasal tufts hoary whitish. 



Adult : Head, neck, chest, wings, rump, upper tail-coverts, tail, 

 and under tail-coverts dull azure-blue; forehead, nasal tufts, 

 and superciliary region pale hoary grayish blue; back and 

 scapulars light brownish gray; chin and throat light ash- 

 gray, or grayish white, finely streaked with darker, the ash- 

 gray continued in broad stripes on chest ; rest of lower parts 

 light brownish gray ; length 10.50-12.50, wing 4.25-4.50 (4.40), 

 tail 5.30-5.90 (5.73), culmen .90-.99 (.94), tarsus 1.35-1.60 

 (1.47). West of twigs, rootlets, etc., in thickets or low trees. 

 Eggs 1.13 X -79, pale greenish, spotted with pale reddish brown 

 or rusty. Sab. Florida. 



479. A. floridana (Bartr.). Florida Jay. 

 c*. Forehead and nasal tufts bright blue, like crown. 



d 1 . Lower tail-coverts bright blue, markedly different from color of 

 belly. 

 e 1 . Back and scapulars dull slaty grayish, tinged with blue ; breast, 

 sides, and flanks light ash-gray ; blue of upper parts, 'etc., 

 a light dull azure hue ; length 11.50-12.75, wing 4.70-5.35 

 (5.02), tail 5.20-6.20 (5.68), culmen .93-1.06 (1.01), tarsus 

 1.45-1.59 (1.55). Nest in thickets or low trees. Eggs 3-6, 

 1.10 X -79, pale green, pale greenish buff, or pale grayish 

 green, rather sparsely marked with very distinct dots or 

 small spots of deep madder-brown. Sab. Middle Province 

 of United States, north to eastern Oregon, Idaho, Montana, 

 and Wyoming, west to western Nevada and Arizona, east 

 to Colorado and New Mexico, and south into northwestern 

 Mexico.. 480. A. woodhousei (Baird). Woodhouse's Jay. 

 e 2 . Back and scapulars dark sepia-brown, without blue tinge; 

 breast, . sides, and flanks brownish white, or very pale 



1 Garrulus coronatus Swains., Philos. Mag. i. 1827, 437. Cyanocitta coronata Stbickl., Ann. N. H. 1845, 

 261. 



