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alarmed, they clambered out, and after clinging to the sides of the nest till 

 I had nearly reached them, they one after another launched themselves 

 out, and soon tumbled to the ground. Meantime the parent birds made 

 their appearance, and their cries of rage soon brought at least a dozen birds 

 to their assistance. The whole colony kept flying around my head, scream- 

 ing and scolding, and exhibiting the utmost rage ; nor did they cease their 

 outcries and efforts to distract my attention till they had accompanied me 

 well away from the neighborhood. 



A single Magpie in nesting plumage was shot by Dr. Newberry at the 

 Rio Puerco, sixty miles west of Fort Wingate, N. Mex. Farther south than 

 this the species was not met with ; and, if occurring in Eastern and South- 

 eastern Arizona, it must, I think, be rare. 



CYANCRUS STELLERI (Gin.), var. MACROLOPHA, Bd. 

 Long-crested Jay. 



Cyanura macrolopha, BD., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, June, 1854, 118 (Albu- 

 querque). Id., Birds N. A., 1858, 582. HENRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1859, 108 (New Mexico). HAYD., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xiii, 18G2, 171. 

 KENNERLY, P. R. R. Rep., Whipple's Route, 1859, 132. COOPER, Birds 

 Ciil., i, 1870, 300. COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila,, 1866, 92 (Fort 

 Whipple, Ariz.). STEV., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 405. AIKEN, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 205. MERRIAM, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 1872, 688. YARROW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 35. 



Cyanura stelleri var. macrolophus, ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 178 (Colorado; 

 Wyoming; Utah). COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 165, 107. YARROW & 

 HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 20. HENSHAW, 

 An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, l.Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 46. Id., Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873. Wheeler's Exped., 

 1874, 123. BD., BREW., & RIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 281, pi. xxi, f. 3. 

 COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 214. 



This bird has been met with by our parties in all portions of Utah 

 and Colorado, in which Territories it is more abundant than in the lower 



