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specimens have common characters in which they dither from California jays. The most 
striking of these differences is in the much darker shade of the under parts, in which there is no 
white at all, except perhaps immediately around the anus. The under tail coverts are of a clear 
blue, almost as bright as that on the upper coverts, and there is a general faint gloss of blue 
beneath, especially along the middle of the body, while in californica there is only a faint trace of 
blue on the under coverts. The back is more strongly glossed with blue ; so much so as almost 
to take away the impression of any gray patch at all. The lores are quite black, without the 
mixture of hoary, seen in californica. The wing is rather longer in proportion ; the tail rather 
less graduated. The hill is more slender. 
A specimen, 8465, from Mexico, doubtfully referred here, is quite similar to those from the 
Rocky mountains ; the tail is, however, rather less graduated, and the under tail coverts are 
white. There is little or no trace of the superciliary line of white spots. The bill is much 
shorter, broader, and more obtuse. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When collect¬ 
ed. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig’l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Extent. 
Stretch 
of wing. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
5035 
Independence Springs, 
N. M. 
Fort Thorn. N. M. 
Sept. 27, 1855 
Capt. J. Pope... 
137 
13.00 
15.00 
5.00 
Bill and feet black; eye 
dark brown. 
8484 
9345 
2 
Oct. 11, 1851 
8465? 
Sept. —, 1836 
CYANOCITTA FLORID ANA, Bonap. 
Florida Jay. 
Corvus jloridanus, Bartram, Travels, 1791,291.— Aud. Orn. Biog. 1, 1831, 444 ; pi. 87. 
Garrulus jloridanus, Bon. Am. Orn. II, 1828, 11; pi. xi.—N uttali., Man. I, 1832, 230.— Aud. Syn. 1839,154.— Ib. 
Birds Amer. IV, 1842, 118; pi. 233. 
CyanurusJloridanus, Swainson, F. B. A. II, 1831, 495. 
Cyanocorax jloridanus, Bon. List, 1838. 
Cyanocitta jloridana, Bon. Consp. 1850, 377. 
JlphdocomaJloridana, Cabanis, Mus Hein. 1851, 22. 
Garrulus cyaneus, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XII, 1817, 476. (Not described.) 
? Garrulus caerulescens, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XII, 1817, 480.— Ord. J. A. N. Sc. I, 1818, 347. 
Pica caerulescens, Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827, Pica, No. 11. 
Sp. Ch.— Tail much graduated ; lateral feathers more than one inch shortest. Tail an inch longer than the wings. Above 
blue ; middle of the back brownish ash. Forehead and sides of the crown, including the nasal feathers, hoary white. Sides 
of head and neck, blue ; the former tinged with blackish, the latter sending a streaked collar of the same across the breast; 
region anterior to this collar dirty white streaked on the edges of the feathers with blue; rest of under parts dirty whitish 
brown ; under tail coverts blue, the tibia tinged with the same. Length, 10.50 ; wing, 4.40 ; tail, 5.70 ; tarsus, 1.45. 
This species is very similar to the Rocky mountain C. woodhouseii in the color of the under 
parts, including the brown belly, the blue crissum, the pectoral hand, &c. The back, however, 
is much lighter and better defined grey, more so even than in G. californica. It differs from 
both species in the hoary on the forehead and sides of the crown, and in the absence of the 
superciliary line of white spots, as also in being considerably smaller. 
