PASSERES (JORVIDAE C. FLORIDANA VAR. WOODHOUSEI. 337 



CYANOCITTA FLORIDANA (Bartr.), var. WOODHOUSEI, Bd. 

 Wood house's Jay. 



Ci/anocitta woodhoiisii, BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 585, pi. 59. Id., Ives' Col. Expccl., 

 1857-58, pt. iv, 6. Id, U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 

 20. HENRY, Proc. Acacl. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 108 (New Mexico). COUES, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1SCC, 92 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). COOPER, 

 Birds Cal., i, 1870, 304. STEV., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 465. MEII- 

 RIAM, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 688 (Ogdeu, Utah). AIKEN, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 205. YARROW, Bep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's 

 Exped., 1874, 35. 



Aphelocoma floridana var. rcoodhoiisei, ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Com]). Zool., 1872, 179 (Col- 

 orado ; Utah). COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 166. YARROW & HENSHAW, 

 Eep. Oru. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 21. HENSIIAW, An. Lye. 

 Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, 1874, 7. Id., An. List Birds Utah. 1872, Wheeler's 

 Exped., 1874, 46. Id., Eep. Orn. Specs., 1873. Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 123. 

 COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 219. 



Cyanocitta californica var. woodhousei, BD., BREW., & RIDCK, N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 29 1 ? 

 pi. 40, f. 3. 



Cyanocorax californica, WOODH., Sitgreave's Exp. Zuiii & Col. Riv., 1854, 77. 



Woodhouse's Jay is a common species through the Middle Region, 

 and to the southward appears to extend beyond the limits of our territory ; 

 yet, in Southeastern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico, it seems in 

 part to be replaced by another species, the Ultramarine Jay (ultramarina 

 var. arizonce), the habitats of the two overlapping each other. Like the 

 Florida Jay, which it so much resembles, it is a bird of the thickets, and 

 never chooses its home in the recesses of the deep woods, but lives in the 

 more open regions which are broken up into ravines and clothed with a 

 scrubby vegetation. In fall, it finds an abundance of favorite food among 

 the piflons, moving about among them in small, silent companies. It shares 

 to a much greater extent than usual the terrestrial habits, which are common, 

 to a greater or less degree, among all the members of this family, and, when 

 undisturbed, appears to spend nearly the whole time in searching on the 

 ground, among the roots and under the trees, for such bits as will satisfy 

 its omnivorous appetite. Its natural disposition seems very petulant, and its 

 anger is easily excited. When it finds that its domestic concerns are being 

 pried into it'resents the incivility with a great variety of harsh notes, which 

 it expresses as it stands on the top of some commanding position near at 

 hand, and moves from side to side, nodding its head and jerking its long- 

 tail, as if to emphasize its vehement scoldings. Mr. Aiken describes the 

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