224 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Aphelocoma calif ornica woodhousei (Baird). Woodhouse's Jay. [480.] 



Cyanociita woodhousii Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. 

 Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xliii [woodhousei, 584], 585. 

 (central Rocky Mountains = Fort Thorn, New Mexico.) 



Range. — Upper Austral and Transition zones from southeastern Oregon, 

 southern Idaho, and southern Wyoming south to southeastern California (east 

 of Sierra Nevada), southern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and southwestern 

 Texas. 



Aphelocoma calif ornica texana Ridgway. Texas Jay. [480.2.] 



A-phelocoma texana Ridgway, Auk, XIX, No. 1, Jan., 1902, 70. (near 

 head of Nueces River, Edwards Co., Texas.) 



Range. — Central and central-western Texas, from Kerr and Edwards 

 counties to Davis Mountains.^ 



[Additionrl races of A. calif ornica occur in Mexico.] 



Aphelocoma insularis Henshaw. Santa Cruz Jay. [481.1.] 



Aphelocoma insularis Henshaw, Auk, HI, No. 4, Oct., 1886, 452. (Santa 

 Cruz Island, California.) 



Range. — Santa Cruz Island, California. 



Subgenus SIEBEROCITTA Coues. 



Sieberocitta Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, ed. 5, I, 1903, 497. Type, by 

 * monotypy, Cyanocitta ultramarina var. arizonae Ridgway. 



Aphelocoma sieberi arizonae (Ridgway) . Arizona Jay. [482.] 



Cyanodtta ultramarina var. Arizonae Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, No. 

 12, Dec, 1873, 199. (Ft. Buchanan and Copper Mines = Old Fort 

 Buchanan, near Crittenden, Pima Co., Arizona.) 



Range. — -Upper Austral Zone in southern Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, 

 and Chihuahua. 



Aphelocoma sieberi couchi (Baird). Couch's Jay. [482a.] 



Cyanocitta couchii Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. 

 and Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 588. (Monterey, Mexico.) 



Range. — Chisos Mountains, central-western Texas, to southern Nuevo Leon 

 and northern Coahuila. 



[Other closely allied races of A. sieberi occur in Mexico.] 



1 The Texas specimens formerly referred to A. cyanotis Ridgway prove to be 

 A. c. texana Ridgway so that the former race is removed from the North 

 American list. 



