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Brown Jay

Cyanocorax morio

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Corvidae

The brown jay (Cyanocorax morio) is a large jay native to Central America and southern Texas. Taxonomy The brown jay was formerly placed in its own genus Psilorhinus. When molecular phylogenetic studies found that the genus Cyanocorax was paraphyletic relative to Psilorhinus, Psilorhinus was subsumed into Cyanocorax to resolve the paraphyly.

Distribution

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