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violet No. 2." In the new race these parts arc respectively "deep madder blue" 

 and "deep plumbago blue." 



Arthur H. Howell (1932) gives the range of this race as "southern 

 and central Florida, from Osceola and Hillsborough Counties south to 

 Key West." 



Its habits seem to be similar in every way to those of the other 

 Florida race. 



CYANOCITTA CRISTATA CYANOTEPHRA Sutton 



WESTERN BLUE JAY 



Based on a study of some 49 specimens of blue jays from Colorado, 

 extreme western Oklahoma, and Kansas, Dr. George M. Sutton (1935) 

 named this pale western race and described it as "similar to all races 

 of Cyanocitta cristata found to the eastward of the Mississippi, but 

 coloration paler, especially on the crest and back; paler even than C. c. 

 semplei Todd, from which it differs also in being decidedly larger and 

 relatively smaller-billed ; and much paler than birds from Michigan ; 

 Minnesota ; Ontario and southeastern Canada ; and the northeastern 

 United States. White markings of wings and tail noticeably more ex- 

 tensive than in semplei, and somewhat more extensive than in breeding 

 birds from Georgia, Louisiana, and northern Florida." He says further : 



All available Minnesota specimens are far too dark for the present race; 

 Manitoba specimens apparently tend to be a trifle paler than eastern Canadian 

 birds ; amd a single mile from Alberta (Lac la Nonne, June 28, Canadian National 

 Museum No. 21512) is decidedly paler than any other Canadian specimen at hand, 

 especially on the crest. 



It is my present belief that the most typical examples of cyanotephra are to be 

 found in extreme western Oklahoma, where the Blue Jay is decidedly rare as » 

 breeding species, in eastern Colorado; in western Kansas; and in the north- 

 western corner of the northern Panhandle of Texas ; but that the race ranges 

 throughout Kansas and northern Oklahoma (save in treeless regions) ; throughout 

 Nebraska (save presumably in the northeastern part where the race found in 

 Minnesota should occur) ; and along the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains 

 to the northwestward of Nebraska. 



CYANOCITTA STELLERI STELLERI (Gmelln) 



STELLER'S JAY 



HABITS 



Jays of the stelleri group are widely distributed in western North 

 America and Central America, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific 

 coast and from the Alaska Peninsula southward to Nicaragua. They 

 are the crested blue jays of this vast region, where they replace our 



