62 FLORIDA JAY. 
well as those of of the tail-feathers, being black. All the lower 
parts are of a dirty pale yellowish gray, more intense on the 
belly, and paler on the throat, which is faintly streaked with 
cinereous, owing to the base of the plumage appearing from 
underneath, its feathers having blackish, bristly shafts, some of 
them without webs. From the cheeks and sides of the neck, the 
blue colour passes down along the breast, and forms a somewhat 
obscure collar; the under wing, and under tail-coverts are 
strongly tinged with blue, which colour is also slightly apparent 
on the femorals; the inferior surface of the wings and tail is 
dark silvery gray; the base of the plumage is plumbeous ash, 
blackish on the head: the wings are four and a half inches long, 
and reach, when closed, hardly beyond the coverts of the tail, 
which is five and a half inches long, extending beyond the wings 
three and a half; the spurious feather is extremely short; the 
first primary, (often mistaken for the second) is as short as the 
secondaries; the five succeeding are subequal, the third and 
fourth being rather the longest. The tail is somewhat wedge- 
shaped, the outer feather being half an inch shorter than the next, 
and one inch and a half shorter than the middle one. The 
tarsus is an inch and a quarter long, and black, as well as the 
toes and nails. 
The female is perfectly similar to the male, being but a trifle 
less in size, and quite as brilliant in plumage. 
Two years since it fell to our lot to describe, and apply the 
name of Ultramarine Jay, (Garrulus ultramarinus ) to a species 
found in Mexico, closely resembling this, and to which Mr. 
Swainson, in his Synopsis of Mexican Birds, has lately given the 
name of Garrulus sordidus, his specimen being probably a young 
one. The principal distinctive characters may be found in its 
larger dimensions, but especially in the shape of its tail, which is 
perfectly even, and not in the least cuneiform, as it generally is 
