Three New Jays from El Salvador

CRiTiCAL study of the Jays collected in E1 Salvador in 1927necessitates the description of three new forms from the cloud forest (Upper Tropical Zone) regions of the interior or Cordilleran mountains. All of these are representatives of Mexican and Guatemalan highland species, two of which apparently reach their extreme southern limits at this point. Further comment on these and other members of the Family Corvidae will be made in our final report, now nearing completion. As the region in question is on the Salvador-Honduras border it is to be expected that these races are not as local as might be inferred from their present known range. Northeastward from Los Esesmiles tretches a large area of high, broken, mountainous country in which most of the forms from the Upper Tropical Zone of E1 Salvador will very probably be found to occur.