WESTERN BIRDS Jay 



their food, only in the juniper and yellow pine country 

 of eastern Oregon are they found straying far beyond 

 its range. 



Willetts says of them in southern California that they 

 are residents of the mountains, mostly on the desert 

 side; that they are irregular visitants to the mesas and 

 foothills along the base of the mountains, and that they 

 undoubtedly breed in favorable localities in the conif- 

 erous forests, but that no eggs have been taken in south- 

 ern California. 



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