White-throated Jay

The white-throated jay is "the handsomest and most strikingly marked" member of genus Cyanolyca. It is 23 to 25 cm (9.1 to 9.8 in) long; three males weighed 50 to 54 g (1.8 to 1.9 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly black head, neck, and upper breast with a white throat and a thin white supercilium that continues around the back of the ear coverts almost to, but not joining, the white throat. The rest of their plumage is slate-blue with a greenish cast. The undersides of their wings are dark gray. Voice: The white-throated jay's principle call is a somewhat variable "repeated, nasal perzheepup". Other descriptions are "a slightly raspy, nasal to shrill sheev-idee sheev-idee or shiev-a shiev-a, and a slightly buzzy sheir sheir".