''Cyanolyca'' is a

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of small jays found in humid highland forests in southern

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and the

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. All are largely blue and have a black mask. They also possess black bills and legs and are skulking birds. They frequently join mixed-species flocks of birds.

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* * Bird genera {{Corvidae-stub