3G0 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



(1.01), tarsus 1.30-1.42 (1.37). Hab. Alaska, except southern 

 coast-district. 



4846. P. canadensis fumifrons Eidgw. Alaskan Jay. 



h^. Adult with whole head white, except occiput, which is plumbeous gray, this 

 color not reaching anteriorly to the eye; young with top of head dull 

 white, tinged with grayish brown. 



Adult : Head and neck pure white, the occiput and upper hind-neck 

 deep plumbeous-gray; back and other upper parts lighter plumbeous- 

 gray ; breast, belly, sides, and flanks light brownish gray. Young : 

 Nasal tufts, lore's, and orbits blackish dusky ; whole crown, and a 

 broad malar stripe, dull whitish, tinged with pale brownish gray ; 

 throat dusky grayish; rest of lower parts more brownish gray, the 

 feathers of belly, etc., tipped with paler. Length about 11.25- 

 13.00, wing 5.90-6.30 (6.10), tail 5.80-6.35 (6.07), culmen .97-1.08 

 (1.03), tarsus 1.35-1.44 (1.40). Nest in coniferous trees, bulky 

 (about 7.00 across b}' 4.00 in height), composed of dead twigs, 

 pine-needles, dried grasses, strips of bark, etc., lined with finer vege- 

 table materials, feathers, etc. ; cavity about 4.00 across b}^ 2.00 deep. 

 Eggs 3-5, 1.15 X -86, grajnsh white, speckled with various shades of 

 brown. Hah. Eocky Mountains, south to Arizona (White Moun- 

 tains) and New Mexico, north into British America. 



484rt. P. canadensis capitalis Baird. Rocky Mountain Jay. 

 a^ Feathers of back with distinct paler shaft-streaks ; breast, belly, sides, and 

 flanks white, like throat and chest. 



Adtdt : Upper half of head, except foi-ehead and nasal tufts, sooty black ; 

 forehead and nasal tufts white, sometimes tinged with brownish ; back 

 and scapulars varying from dull brownish gray to sepia-brown, the 

 feathers with distinct though narrow whitish shaft-streaks ; wings and 

 tail brownish gray, the wing-coverts, tertials, and tail-feathers narrowly 

 (sometimes indistinctly) tipped with whitish ; lower parts entirely 

 white, sometimes very faintly tinged posteriorly with pale brownish or 

 brownish gray. Young : Dull grayish sooty brown, paler and more 

 decidedly brownish below, darkest on top of head. Length about 9.50- 

 11.00, wing 5.15-5.75 (5.53), tail 5.20-5.90 (5.56), culmen .84-.99 (.92), 

 tarsus 1.23-1.40 (1.30). Eggs 1.04 X -79, gra3'ish white, greenish white, 

 or very pale grayish green, speckled with hair-brown and lilac-gray. 

 Hob. Northwest coast, from northern California (Humboldt Bay) and 

 northern Sierra Nevada (both slopes) north to British Columbia. 



485. P. obscurus Eidgw. Oregon Jay. 



Genus CORVUS Linn^us. (Page 351, pi. XCYII., fig. 1; pi. XCYIII., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Entirely black, the plumage more or less glossy. Nest 

 a bulky structure of coarse sticks, etc., in trees or on cliff's (according to the 



