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Richey, Fruitland Park, and Ormond. East along the Atlantic coast 

 from Ormond south to Lemon City. South to Lemon City, Immokalee, 

 and Fort Myers. West along the Gulf coast from Fort Myers north to 

 Port Richey. 



Egg dates. — Florida: 49 records, March 21 to June 14; 25 records, 

 April 10 to 30. 



APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS SUPERCILIOSA Strickland 



LONG-TAILED JAY 

 Plates 17, 18 



HABITS 



The California jay of the interior is now known by the above name. 

 Under its former name, Aphclocoma calijornica immanis, the 1931 Check- 

 list gives its range as "extreme southern Washington, valleys of Oregon 

 between the Cascades and the Coast ranges, and the Sacramento and 

 San Joaquin valleys of California and adjacent mountain slopes." 



Dr. Grinnell (1901) in describing it, from specimens taken near Scio, 

 Oreg., gave as its characters, "in coloration similar to Aphelocoma 

 calijornica, but size greater and tail proportionately much longer." This 

 description was apparently based on only four birds, at least the 

 measurements of only four are given, all from the Willamette Valley, 

 Oreg. Mr. Swarth (1918), with a much larger series from a much 

 larger area does not agree exactly with Grinnell's description ; he says 

 that immanis is "distinguished from A. c. calijornica both by large size 

 and pale [italics mine] coloration ; from oocleptica by pale coloration, 

 size being about the same." At the time that Dr. Grinnell described 

 immanis the characters and the distribution of the California races of 

 Aphelocoma were not so well understood as they are today, and the fact 

 had not been recognized that the two coastal races are dark colored and 

 the interior race is paler. Ridgway (1904) does not recognize immanis 

 but lists it as a synonym of calijornica. 



Grinnell, Dixon, and Linsdale (1930) call this bird the interior Cali- 

 fornia jay, an appropriate name. They say of its haunts in the Lassen 

 Peak region : "This species, belonging to the brush-covered portions of 

 the section, found suitable surroundings on the western slope of the 

 section where the following kinds of plants grew : buck-brush, scrub 

 oak, elderberry, hazel brush, manzanita, red-bud, grapevine. Individ- 

 uals were also often seen in trees, but, as a rule, in their lower portions. 

 The kinds of trees thus frequented were: blue oak, willow, living or 

 fire-killed digger pine, knobcone pine, cottonwood, valley oak, sycamore, 

 box elder, and orchard trees. In the eastern part of the section the jays 

 frequented the slopes that were juniper covered. In addition to the 



