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. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 138 CUKVIDJE. with white ; under wing-coverts white, the edge of the wing bhie ; bill and legs black ; " iris greyish brown" (Mar.). jfTotal length 13-5 inches, culmen I'o, wing 7"95, tail 6-2, tarsus 1"85. Hab. The same as that of the genus. a. Ad. st. Brazil. 32. GYMNOKITTA. Type. Gyninorhiniis, Seis. ii. p. 21 (1841) * G. cvanocepbala. Cvanocephalus, Dp. Oss. Stat. Zool. Eur. Vertehr. ' 1840-41, p. 17 (1842)t '. G. cyanocepbala. Gjmnokitta, Bp. Consp. i. p. 382 (1850) G. Head of Gt/mnokifia cy
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 138 CUKVIDJE. with white ; under wing-coverts white, the edge of the wing bhie ; bill and legs black ; " iris greyish brown" (Mar.). jfTotal length 13-5 inches, culmen I'o, wing 7"95, tail 6-2, tarsus 1"85. Hab. The same as that of the genus. a. Ad. st. Brazil. 32. GYMNOKITTA. Type. Gyninorhiniis, Seis. ii. p. 21 (1841) * G. cvanocepbala. Cvanocephalus, Dp. Oss. Stat. Zool. Eur. Vertehr. ' 1840-41, p. 17 (1842)t '. G. cyanocepbala. Gjmnokitta, Bp. Consp. i. p. 382 (1850) G. Head of Gt/mnokifia cyanoceijhala. Range. Eocky Mountains of Colorado to Cascade ilountains of California and Oregon; south to Mexico and Arizona. 1. Gymnokitta cyanocepbala. Gyiiinorbinus cvanocephalus, Max. JReis. ii. p. 21. Cvanocephalus wiedi, Bp. Oss. Stat. Zool. Eur. Vert. 1840-41, p. 17; 'Sahin, Ibis, 1873, p. 103. Gymnokitta cyanocepbala, Bp. Consp. i. p. 382; Cass. B. Calif, and Texas, p. 165, pi. 28; Baird, B. X. Amer. p. 574; Coiie-i Ihis, 1872, p. 152: id. Keu B. p. 103; Cooper, Orn. Calif, i. p. 292; Baird, Brewer, 8f Ridgu: B. ii. p. 260, ; 38. fig. 2: Coues, B. Xorfh-tcesf, p. 210. Psilorbinus cyanoeepbalus, Gra;/, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 14. Cyanocorax c'assini, McCall, Pr. Acad. X. Sci. Philad. 1851, p. 216. Nucifraga cyanocepbala, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 10. General colour above pale ashy blue, rather lighter and more cobalt on the upper tail-coverts ; head deep cobalt, including the sides of the face; the forehead, cheeks, and ear-coverts rather brighter ; lores and feathers round the eye blackish ; wing-coverts coloured like the back ; the quiUs blackish, externally greyish blue, the iuner secondaries entirely of the latter colour, and resembling the back; tail pale greyish blue, with a very narrow whitish edging at the tip of the outermost feathers; under surface of body greyish blue, including the under wing- and tail-coverts, and rather lighter
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