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GARRULUS FLORID ANUS. 
passes down along the breast, and forms a somewl" 
obscure collar ; the under wing and under tail-covC 
are strongly tinged with blue, which colour is $ 
slightly apparent on the femorals ; the inferior slid' 1 ' 
of the wings and tail is dark silvery gray; the base' 
the plumage is plumbeous ash, blackish" on the hr* 1 , 
the wings are four and a half inches long, and resw 
when closed, hardly beyond the coverts of the w 
which is five and a half inches long, extending b«J°t 
the wings three and a half; the spurious feather' 
extremely short; the first primary, (often mistaken ** 
the second,) is as short as the secondaries; the d' 
succeeding are subequal, the third and fourth be# 
rather the longest. The tail is somewhat wedge-shag 
the outer feather being half an inch shorter than # 
next, and one inch and a half shorter than the mid 1 ! 
one. The tarsus is an inch and a quarter long, 
black, as well as the toes and nails. 
The female is perfectly similar to the male, being 
a trifle less in size, and quite as brilliant in plumag*' 
Two years since, it fell to our lot to describe, ' l|f 
a PP I y the name of ultramarine jay, ( Garrulus id w 
marinus,') to a species found in Mexico, closely " 
sembling this, and to which Mr Swainson, in his SynOp* 1 
of Mexican Hu rls, has lately given the name of GarT$ 
sordidus, his specimen being probably a young <>£ 
The principal distinctive characters may be found io 'I 
larger dimensions, but especially in the shape of its w 
which is perfectly even, and not in the least cuneifW 1 ? 
as it generally is in the jays. The back, though ’ 
also somewhat intermixed with dusky, is much ^ 
blue than in our species, and indeed" the whole 
colour is somewhat more brilliant and silky; the bl»S 
collar is wanting, and the under wing, but esped’ 11 " 
the under tail-coverts, are much less tinged with hi" 
The wings, moreover, are proportionally larger. 
