422 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — PASSEBES— OSCINES. 
this sooty color passing insensibly on the rump and breast into dull blue. Wings and tail 
richer blue, crossed with numerous black bars, not on the secondary coverts. Bill and feet 
black. Young more fuliginous, the wing-bars faint if not wanting. Size of the Eastern jay, 
or rather larger. Pacific coast region, Oregon to Alaska, E. to the Kocky Mts., where inoscu- 
lating with 0. s. macrolopha. This is the typical form, with little or no blue, no whitish on 
head, and unbaiTcd wing-coverts ; running through annectens, frontalis, and macrolopha into 
some very difi"erent Mexican forms. Habits, nest, and eggs as described under macrolopha. 
351. C. s. annec'tens. (Lat. annectens, annexing.) Black-headed Jay. This name has been 
given to specimens directly connecting stelleri and macrolopha. General tone of the former ; 
quite blackish, short-crested, with plain wing-coverts ; but blue frontal streaks and whitish 
eye-patch of the latter. N. Rocky Mts., U. S. 
353 C. s. fronta'lis. (Lat. frontalis, pertaining to frons, the forehead.) Blue-fronted Jay. 
Sierra Jay. An offset from stelleri ; the sooty color rather brownish than blackish ; the blue 
of diflferent shade on body from the deep indigo on wings and tail ; whole crest glossed with 
bluish, and conspicuous blue streaks on forehead ; no whitish eye-patches ; wing-coverts 
obsoletely or not barred. Sierras Nevadas of California. 
353. C. s. macrolopha. (Gr. jxaKpos, makros, long ; \6(f)09, lophos, crest. Fig. 275.) LoNG- 
CRESTED Jay, Better marked than the connecting links. ^ 9 ' Upper parts sooty umber- 
brown, with a faint blue 
tinge, blackening on 
head and neck all 
around in decided con- 
trast, passing on rump 
and upper tail- coverts 
into beautiful light co- 
balt-blue ; passing on 
fore breast into the 
same blue which occu- 
pies all the under parts. 
Crest black, but faced 
on forehead with bluish- 
white, which, when the 
Fig. 275. — Long-crestedJay, nat. size. ( Ad nat. del. E.G.) feathers are not dis- 
turbed, runs in two parallel lines from the nostrils upward — these colored tips of the feathers of 
firmer texture than their basal portions. One or both eyelids patched with white. Chin ab- 
ruptly whitish, streaky. Exposed surfaces of wings rich indigo-blue, most intense on the 
inner secondaries, which, with the greater coverts, are regularly and firmly barred across both 
webs with black ; the outer webs of the primaries lighter blue, more like that of the rump or 
under parts. Upper surface of tail rich indigo, like the secondaries, and similarly black-barred; 
these bands most distinct towards the ends and on the outer webs of the feathers ; tail viewed 
from below appearing mostly blackish. Iris dark. Bill and feet black. Length 12.00-13.00 ; 
extent 17-00-19.00 ; wing 5.50-6.50; tail the same; bill 1.12; tarsus 1.50; middle toe and 
claw 1.33. Sexes quite alike, but 9 the lesser dimensions given. Crest longer than in 
northern stelleri, sometimes 3.00. Young: Much more sooty; below entirely fuliginous, with 
the future blue indicated by an ashy or grayish shade. Wings and tail nearly as bright blue as 
in the adult, but the black bars faint or wanting. Crest shorter, not quite black, not faced with 
blue, and no white about eyes. This form melts into C. diademata of Mexico, which is 
bluer; and this is near the quite blue C. coronata. Rocky Mt. region, U. S., especially 
southerly; a common bird of the pine belt, displaying in marked degree the notorious attributes 
of its genus, or genius. Nest in trees and bushes, usually concealed with art, though bulky; 
