lilRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 373 



Pacific coast district, from Humboldt Count}', California, to southern 

 British Columbia (Vancouver Island and coast of opposite mainland). 



(?) Garrulua canadensh (not Corvus cunadcnaia Linnjeus) Audubon, .Synopsis, 

 1839, 155, part (Columbia R.).« 



Perviori'itx canadensin Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 590, i)art (Port 

 Townseml, Shoalwater Bay, and Cascade Mts., Washington); Cat. N. Am. 

 Bird.s, 1859, no. 443, part. — Cooper and SrcKi.EV, Reji. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 xii, pt. ii, 1800, 216, excl. syn. and description (mouth of Cohnnbia R. ; 

 Puget Sound; habib<; notes). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 307, part; excl. syn., 

 descr., and figs.— Coues, Checik List, 1873, no. 239, part. 



[7*emoreM.s] canadensis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, IGO, part. 



[^I'ei-isoreus canadensk.'} Var. ohscurus RinciWAV, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 

 1873, 194 (first descr.). 



Perisorciis ranade7isis, var. ohscurus Ridgwav, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Dec, 1873, 

 199 (redescribed; type from Shoalwater Bay, Washington; coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. ). — Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 302, 

 part. 



Perisoreus canadensis . . . var. nhscunis Coues, Check List, 1873, 129, App. 

 no. 239a. 



{^IWisoreus canadensis var. capitalis'] b. obscnrns Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 221, 

 excl. syn., part (synonymy). 



Perisoreus canadensis o/>.sc?<rHs (not of IMearns, 1879) Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 361, part.— Howe, Osprey, new ser., i, 1902, 105 (crit.). 



P[<'nxoreuif] clanadensla'] obscurus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 425, 

 ])art. 



Perisoreus ohscurus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 105, jd. 5, iig. 2 

 (British Columbia; Straits of Fuca). — Ridoway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 298, part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 485, 

 part. — Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 167 (Washington Co., n. w. Oregon; habits; 

 descr. nest and eggs).— Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 211, part 

 (Humboldt Co., n. w. California). — Belding, Land Birds Pacific Distr., 

 1890, 111, part (mouth of Columbia R.; Beaverton, Willamette Valley, Puget 

 Sound, etc.). — Swallow, Auk, viii, 1891, 397 (Clatsop Co., n. w. Oregon; 

 descr. nest).— Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 32.— L.\wrence 

 (R. II.), Auk, ix, 1892,45 (Orays Harbor, Washington).— Riioaps, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1893, 45, 63 (Niscpially, Washington; Vancouver I. and 

 opp. coast of mainland). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, .394, 

 part, pi. 3, fig. 21 (egg).— (?) Rathbun (S. F.), Auk, xix, 1902, 136 (Seattle, 

 Washington, fall and winter, breeding in mountains to eastward). — Heller, 

 Condor, iv, 1902, 46 (s. Mendocino Co., California, resident).— Bailey 

 (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 278. 



Pleris'oreusi ohscurus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 360, part. 



PERISOREUS OBSCURUS GRISEUS Ridgway. 

 GRAY JAY. 



Similar to P. o. ohsciirus, but decidedly larger (except feet), and 

 coloration much ora3'er; back, etc., deep mouse gray, instead of 

 brown, remiges and tail between gray (no. 6) and smoke gray, instead 

 of drab-gray, and under parts grayish white instead of brownish 

 white. 



o Either this or P. o. griseus. 



