2\)2 BULLETIN no, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Central California, from Ventura, Kern, and Tulare counties on 

 the .south to Tehama County on the north; chiefly the Sacramento and 

 vSan Joaquin valleys, more rare and irregularly distributed along the 

 coast. 



Pica nuttaUi Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 450; \>\. 362 (Santa Barbara, Califor- 

 nia; type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Birdfi Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 104, pi. 

 228. — Bo4s"APARTE, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 27. — Xuttall, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 236.— Newbehry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 X, pt. iv, 1857, 84, pi. 26.— Baied, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 578; 

 ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 26; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 433.— 

 Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 54 (w. slope Sierra 

 Nevada, California and Oregon). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 295 (int. valleys 

 and coast s. of Monterey to Santa Barbara). — BAnu), Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 38, fig. 3.— Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 

 1877, 519 (Sacramento); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 287. — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 66 (Santa Clara Co. ). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 476.— Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 181 (Ventura 

 Co., Cahfornia).— Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 211 (upper 

 Sacramento Valley; habits). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1891, 442 

 ("Columbia River").— Fisher (A. K.), North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 68 

 ( Visalia; Tulare Co. ; San Luis Obispo; Santa Ynez R., etc. ). — Bendire, Life 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 355, pi. 3, fig. 14 (egg).^ — Barlow, The Avifauna, i, 

 1885, 20 (habits).— Fisher (W. K.), Condor, ii, 1900, 137 (Mount St. Helena, 

 Napa Co., California).— No.vck, Condor, iv, 1902, 78 (vocal powers). — 

 Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 27L 



I'lica] vKltdJUBotiAPARTF., Consp. Av., i, 1850, 383. — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 

 2d ed., 1884, 421.— Ridgw.w, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 352.— McGregor, 

 Auk, xvi, 1891, 78, in text (Shasta Co.). 



Pica nutlalln Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 152. — Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' 

 Expl. Zuiii and Col. R., 1853, 77 (San Francisco to San Jo.se). 



Cleptes niitfalli Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1847, 46 (Santa Bar- 

 bara; habits). 



\_Picamelanoleacu.'\ \wi- imUaUii CovEti, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 164. 



Pica melanoleuca . . . var. nuttaUi Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 233o. 



[Pica melanoleuca \nr. hudsunica^ c. nuttaUi Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 212 (syn- 

 onymy). 



J'ica melanoleuca nuttaUi Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 172 (Sacra- 

 mento). — Hensh.vw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 252 (Santa Clara 

 Valley and Santa Barbara, (California). 



Pica cuitdafa, var. nuttaUi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 270. 



Pica rusiica nuttaUi Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 348. 



P[ica'] rl^usticcC] nuttaUi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 421. 



Pica ? {Pica var.) nuttaUi Cooper, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., vi, 1875, 198. 



Genus CALOCITTA Gray. 



Calocitta Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841,50. (Type, Pica l,nUortii Wngler,^ P. 



forrnosa Swainson.) 

 CaUicitta (emendation) Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, Oct., 1851. 225. 

 r'yamtnix (not of Swainson, 1831) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 380. (Type, 

 J'ica ImUoi-l'ii Wagler, = P. fortnoxa Swainson.) 



