APHELOCOJIA. 497 



Eggs of the California Jay vary in shape from a broad oval to a 

 somewhat pointed oval, and are distinctly glossy. The ground- 

 colour varies from pale blue to greyish-green or pale olive-green. 

 The blue examples from Los Angeles are very sparingly marked 

 ■with small spots of reddish-brown and lilac : the other specimens 

 are more or less spotted all over with reddish-brown or umber- 

 brown and lilac or ash-grey, the markings being always most 

 numerous towards the larger end, and in some specimens forming 

 a distinct cap. 



1. [Ca.lihvn\a.] (S))ii'ffis. Liaf.). S.'i,lvin:.Godman Coll. 

 4. Calitbrnia, Sod May ( Wallace). Crowley Bequest. 



2. Sacramento Vallev, California Crowley Bequest, 



{A. L. H.! Tndram Coll.). 

 4. Pasadena, CaUforaia, 20tb AJay. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



3. Los Angeles, California. W. Kadclifle Sauudprs, Esq 



[P.]. 



Aphelocoma woodhousei (Baird). 



Apheloconia woodliousei, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 114 (1877); 

 Bendire, Life-IUst. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 372, pi. v. fi?. 14 (1895) ; 

 Itidyw. Birds North ^- Middle Amer. iii. p. 333 (1904): Sharpe] 

 Hand-l. V, p. 617 (1009) ; Nehrk, Eat. Eiersanunl. p. 362 (1910). 



Five eggs of Woodhouse's Jay resemble the more strongly 

 marked examples of A. californica described above. 



5. [Western United States.] W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq . 



[P.]. 



Aphelocoma cyanotis, Ridgway. 



Aphelocoma evanotia, Bendire, Life^Hist. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 382 

 (1895); itid(iw. Birds North Sf Middle Amer. iii. p. 335 (1904); 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 617 (1909). 



Five eggs of the I51ue-carcd Jay are of a wide oval shape and 

 slightly glossy. The ground-colour in one is greyish-blue and in 

 the remaining four dull greyish-green. All are marked with 

 chestnut and lilac-grey spots : rather faint in two specimens, mostly 

 concentrated round the larger end in two more, and round the 

 smaller end in the fiftb. They bear a curious resemblance to 

 strongly marked eggs of Tardus viscivorus. They measure respec- 

 tively: 1-11 by -82; 1-1 by -8; 1-05 by '85 ; 1-03 by -8 ; and 1-02 

 by -81. 



5. North-west head of Guadalupe >SaIvin-Godniau Coll. 

 River, Centrjd Texas, 5th April 

 {H. P. Attwater). 



