ORDER PASSERIFORMES. 221 



Perisoreus obscurus obsctirus Ridgway. Oregon Jay. [485.] 



Perisoreus Canadensis var. obscurus Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, No. 11, 

 Nov., 1873, 194 (cf. also No. 12, Dec. 1873, 199). (Shoalwater Bay, 

 Washington Ter.) 



Range. — Pacific coast from Western Washington to Mendocino County, 

 California. 



Perisoreus obsciirus griseus Ridgway. Gray Jay. [485a.] 



Perisoreus obscurus griseus Ridgway, Auk, XVI, No. 3, Jul}', 1899, 255. 

 (Keechelus Lake, Kittinas [ = Kittitas] Co., Washington.) 



Range. — Southwestern British Columbia, south-central Washington, and 

 Oregon through the Cascades to northern California (Mt. Shasta and the 

 Warner Mountains). 



Genus CYANOCITTA Strickland. 



Cyanocitta Strickland, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, XV, No. 98, 

 April, 1845, 261. T>-pe, by orig. desig., Corvus crislatvs Linnaeus. 



Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus). Northern Blue Jay. [477.] 



Corvus cristatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 106. Based on The 

 Blew Jay, Pica glandaria caerulea cristata Catesby, Carolina, I, 15. 

 (in America septentrionali = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern Alberta, northern Manitoba, Quebec, New 

 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland south to central Illinois, Tennessee, 

 and Virginia, and west to western Nebraska, eastern Colorado, and central 

 Texas. Ranges farther south in winter. Casual in New Mexico. 



Cyanocitta cristata florincola Coues. Florida Blue Jay. [477a.] 



Cyanocitta cristata florincola Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 421. 

 (Florida = Welaka, Putnam Co.) 



Range. — South Atlantic and Gulf states from the coast of North Carolina to 

 northern Florida, and west to Louisiana. 



Cyanocitta cristata semplei Todd. Semple's Blue Jay, [4776.] 



Cyanocitta cristata semplei Todd, Auk, XLV, No. 3, July 6, 1928, 364. 

 (Cocoanut Grove, Florida.) 



Range. — Central and southern Florida. 



Cyanocitta stelleri stelleri (Gmelin). Steller's Jay. [478.] 



Corvus Stelleri Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788,' 370. Based on Steller's 

 Crow Latham, Synops., I, Pt. i, 387. (in sinu Natka Americae borealis 

 = Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, B. C.) 



