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Definition of Cyanocitta
1. Noun. New World jays.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Garrulinae, Subfamily Garrulinae
Member holonyms: Blue Jay, Cyanocitta Cristata, Jaybird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyanocitta
Literary usage of Cyanocitta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"260, I proposed to separate the Blue Jays of America from Cyanocorax, under the
generic name of cyanocitta, and I also pointed out a species of the latter ..."
2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1877)
"cyanocitta ... Bp. Consp. ip 376 (1850) C. cristata. - ~~ Head of cyanocitta
cristata. . . C. diademata. ..."
3. The Code of Nomenclature and Check-list of North American Birds Adopted by by American Ornithologists' Union (1886)
"Blue Jay. Corvus cristatus LINN. SN ed. 10, I. 1758, 106. cyanocitta ... V. Jan.
1873, 41. cyanocitta stelleri var. frontalis BOUCARD, Qat. Av. 1876, 279. ..."
4. Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska by Joseph Grinnell (1900)
"STATUS—Common resident locally in Sonoran west of the Sierra Nevada, north to
Red Bluff and south to Santa Paula. (478, part) cyanocitta stellen ..."
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