Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White. 



605. Lark Bunting (Calamosffia melanocorys). L: 



7.2. Ad. (j\ Black, patch in wing white, outer tail- 

 feathers tipped, tertials margined with white. Ad. $. 

 Above grayish brown streaked with blackish; below 

 white conspicuously streaked with black; all but cen- 

 tral tail-feathers with white tips; broad wing-bars buff. 

 Yng. cf. Variously intermediate between Ad. cj^and $. 

 (See page 251). 



Range. — Wpstem United States, chiefly east of Rockies; breeds 

 from western Kansas and eastern Colorado, north to western Minne- 

 sota and Assiniboia; wintersin Mexico; irregular west in migrations 

 to Idaho and southern California. 



484. Canada Jay; Whiskey Jack (Perisoreus cana- 

 densis). L. 11. 5. Ads. Black of hindhead reaching 

 to back of eye; back, wings, and tail gray, belly lighter, 

 throat white; forehead buffy white. Notes, ca-ca-ca 

 and a number of peculiar sounds impossible to repro- 

 duce on paper. (Bendire.) 



Range. — Eastern North America; Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 

 northern New England, northern New York, northern Michigan; 

 northern Minnesota, north to Newfoundland and Hudson Bay region, 

 west to the Rockies in Alberta. 



484a. Rocky Mountain Jay (P. c. capitalis). Sim- 

 ilar to No. 484, but head white, black of hindhead 

 grayer and not reaching to eye. 



Range. Rocky Mountain region from New Mexico and Arizona 

 north to Montana and Idaho. 



484b. Alaskan Jay {P. c. fumifrons) . Very near to 

 No. 484, but forehead averaging more yellowish. 



Range. Alaska; interior and west to Cook Inlet, north of southern 

 coast region. 



484c. Labrador Jay (P. c. nigricapillus) . Similar 

 to No. 484, but black of hindhead deeper and reaching 

 forward as a well defined ring around the eye; below 

 browner. 



Range. — Labrador. 



485. Oregon Jay {Perisoreus obscurus). Similar to 

 No. 484, but back feathers with light shaft streaks, fore- 

 head less white, underparts nearly uniform white. 



Range.— Pacific coast from northern California to southern British 

 Columbia. 



485a. Gray Jay {P. o. griseus). Similar to No. 

 485, but larger and grayer; back, etc., deep mouse 

 gray, instead of brown; below grayish white instead of 

 brownish white. (Ridgw.) 



Range.— British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northern 

 California, east of Coast and Cascade Ranges. (Ridgw.) 



49 1. Clarke Nutcracker (Nudfraga columbiana) . 

 L. 12. Ads. Gray; wings and middle tail-feathers 

 black, tips of secondaries and outer tail-feathers white. 

 Notes. A loud, harsh, car-r-car-r. 



Range. - Mountains of western North Americo, from northern Low- 

 er California, Arizona and New Mexico, north to northern Alaska; 

 casually east to Mississippi Valley. 



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