. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 288 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Qyanocitta califomica, Strickland. CALIFOBNIA JAT. cali/oDiirns, ViooRs, ZoiJl. Bci'chey's Voyage, 183!», 21, pi. v. Cijanncitta cnli- fornic't, SriMCKLAND, Ann. Mag. XV, 1845, 342. — Gambel, J. A. N. Sc. 2(1 series, I, Dt'c. 1^47, 4.'). — lioN. Conspoetus, 1850, 377.—Nkwbekry, P. K. U. Kep. VI, IV, 1857, 85.—Baiud, Birds N. Am. 1858, 584. — Heeiim. X, .S", 55.—Coopek, Orn. Ca
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. 288 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Qyanocitta califomica, Strickland. CALIFOBNIA JAT. cali/oDiirns, ViooRs, ZoiJl. Bci'chey's Voyage, 183!», 21, pi. v. Cijanncitta cnli- fornic't, SriMCKLAND, Ann. Mag. XV, 1845, 342. — Gambel, J. A. N. Sc. 2(1 series, I, Dt'c. 1^47, 4.'). — lioN. Conspoetus, 1850, 377.—Nkwbekry, P. K. U. Kep. VI, IV, 1857, 85.—Baiud, Birds N. Am. 1858, 584. — Heeiim. X, .S", 55.—Coopek, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 3('2. Ci/fiiwcornx californicus, Gamrel, Pr. A. N. Sc. Ill, Ap. 1847, 201. Aph-hM-nma , Cabanis, Mils. Hein. 1851, 221. —Bon. Coniptes Rt'iidus, XXXVII, Nov. 1853, 828 ; Notes Orn. Delattre. Corvus ultraviarinns, A\'l>. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 456, pi. ccolxii (not Garrulus ulframarinus, BoN.). Garruhis idfrnmarinus, AUD. Syn. 1839, 154. — Ib. Birds Am. IV, 18*2, 115, pi. ccxxxii (not of Bonaparte). C'l/anocttta supcrciliom, Strickland, Ann. Mag. XV, 1845, 200 (type of genus Cyanocitla). '*Corvus jHtlliaius, Drapiez," Boxap. Sp. Char. Width of bill at base of lower mandible rather more than half the lencrth of culmen. Lateral tail-lVathers about an inch the shortest. Tail an inch longer than the wings. General color above, including the surface of the wings, bright blue, without bars. The wlu)le back, including to some »\xtent the scapulars, brownish-ash, very faintly glossed with blue in the adult. A streaked white superciliary line from a little anterior to the eye as far as the occiput. Sides of the head and neck blue, the region around and b(^hind the eye, including lores and most of ear-coverts, black. The blue of the sides of the neck extends across the forepart of the breast, forming a crescent, interrupted in the middle. The under parts anterior to the crescent white, the feathers edged with blue ; behind it dull white; th
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