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Joseph Mailliard (1920) writes of their winter behavior at Carmel, 

 Calif: "The Nutcrackers had discovered that kitchen doors and back 

 yards were good for some free 'hand-outs', and they systematically 

 visited many such. While they fed to some extent on the Monterey 

 pines, apparently more intent upon the tips of young buds than upon the 

 contents of the cones, they picked also a good many scraps and bits 

 of grain or crumbs in the streets, paying no attention to people twenty 

 or thirty feet away, but becoming wary of closer approach. They 

 seemed to have certain hours for being in certain places, and for the 

 first few days of my stay appeared in the street opposite the dining 

 room window while we were at breakfast." 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — Western United States and Canada, and Alaska; casual east 

 to Lake Michigan and the Mississippi Valley ; not regularly migratory. 



The normal range of Clark's nutcracker extends north to central 

 British Columbia (Fort St. James and Moose Pass) ; Alberta (Jasper 

 House, Banff, and Porcupine Hills) ; Montana (Glacier National Park, 

 Statesville, and Billings) ; and northwestern South Dakota (Short Pine 

 Hills). East to western South Dakota (Short Pine Hills and Elk 

 Mountains); southeastern Wyoming (Laramie Peak); Colorado (Estes 

 Park, Cheyenne Mountain, and Blanco Peak) ; and New Mexico (Santa 

 Fe Canyon, Diamond Peak, and San Luis Pass). South to southern 

 New Mexico (San Luis Pass); Arizona (Mount Graham and Santa 

 Catalina Mountains) ; and northern Baja California (San Pedro Martir 

 Mountains). West to Baja California (San Pedro Martir Mountains 

 and La Grulla) ; eastern California (Bear Valley, Florence Lake. Yo- 

 semite Valley, and Butte Lake) ; Oregon (Pinehurst and Crater Lake) ; 

 Washington (Bumping Lake and Lake Chelan); and British Columbia 

 (Alta Lake, Lillooet, and Fort St. James). 



Casual records. — Although not a regular migrant, the nutcracker is 

 given to erratic wanderings that sometimes take it considerable distance 

 from its normal range. In Alaska it has been recorded on the southeast 

 coast at Sitka and north to the Kowak River. Other Alaskan records 

 are: Nushagak, November 5, 1885; Takotna, October 1, 1919; Farewell 

 Mountain, September, 1921; Chatanika River, September 1922; and 

 McCarthy, November, 1922. According to Taverner. it also has been 

 collected at Robinson, Yukon. On the coast of British Columbia it has 

 been recorded from Comox, February 18, 1904. and wintering on 

 Graham Island in 1919-20. During the period from October 1919 to 

 April 1920 it appeared in considerable numbers on the coast of southern 

 California as at Pacific Grove, Carmel, and Santa Cruz Island, while one 



