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San Francisco Bay south to the Mexican border; the long-tailed jay 

 (A. c. immanis) is found in the interior, from the San Joaquin and 

 Sacramento Valleys of California north to southern Washington; the 

 Nicasio jay (A. c. oocleptica) is found in the coast region of northern 

 California; Belding's jay (A. c. obscura) is found mainly in the Upper 

 Austral Zone of northwestern Baja California; Xantus's jay (A. c. 

 hypoleuca) occupies the Cape district of Baja California; Woodhouse's 

 jay (A. c. woodhousei) is found from southeastern Oregon and the 

 central Rocky Mountain region south to southwestern Texas and south- 

 eastern California; the Texas jay (A. c. texana) is found in central 

 Texas south to the Davis Mountains, and probably to northern Coahuila; 

 the blue-gray jay (A. c. grisea), occupies the Sierra Madre region of 

 southern Chihuahua and Durango; Sumichrast's jay (A. c. sumichrasti), 

 is found in the southeastern parts of the Mexican tableland, chiefly in 

 the states of Veracruz, Puebia, Tlaxcala, and Oaxaca; while the blue- 

 cheeked jay (A. c. cyanotis) occupies the Mexican Plateau from the 

 states of Mexico and Hidalgo north into Coahuila and Durango. There 

 is almost endless intergradation between some of these races. The 

 desert California jay (A. c. cactophila) occurs in central Baja California. 



Egg dates. — California: 160 records, March 10 to July 11; 80 

 records, April 6 to 30, indicating the height of the season. 



Mexico: 22 records, March 20 to June 24; 11 records, April 20 to 

 May 16. 



Oregon : 4 records, April 20 to June 4. 



Texas: 28 records, March 14 to May 18; 10 records, March 30 to 

 May 8. 



Woodhouse's Jay 



Arizona: 9 records, April 5 to June 6. 



New Mexico: 8 records, April 19 to May 27. 



Utah : 26 records, April 6 to May 20 ; 14 records, April 25 to May 3. 



Santa Cruz Jay 



Santa Cruz Island: 27 records, February 6 to May 16; 13 records, 

 March 27 to April 7. 



APHELOCOMA COEKULESCENS OBSCtJRA Anthony 

 BELDING'S JAY 



Belding's jay now seems to be recognized as a valid race of the 

 coerulescens species, inhabiting northwestern Baja California as far 

 south as latitude 30° N. It was named by A. W. Anthony (1889) and 



