Crows (Corvidae)

Black-throated Magpie-jay (Calocitta colliei) - HBW 14, p. 587

French: Geai à face noire German: Blauwangenhäher Spanish: Urraca Hermosa Carinegra
Other common names: Collie's Magpie-jay

Taxonomy: Pica colliei Vigors, 1829, San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico.
Genus sometimes subsumed in Cyanocorax. Forms a superspecies with C. formosa; often considered conspecific, and the two interbreed in Jalisco and Colima (birds with intermediate characters locally common). Monotypic.

Distribution: NW Mexico from S Sonora and SW Chihuahua S through Sinaloa to Jalisco and Colima.