The Migration of North American Birds 355 



Humboldt County, California, north through western Oregon and western 

 Washington to northern Chehalis County, central western Washington, and, 

 at least in winter, to Kitsap County, Washington. 



Gray Jay {Perisoreus obscurus griseus). Resident in the northwestern 

 United States, east of the Coast Ranges, from central northern California, 

 north through the Cascade region of west central Oregon (west to Washington 

 County) and central Washington (except the Puget Sound region), to south- 

 western British Columbia, including Vancouver Island. 



Rathbun's Jay (Perisoreus obscurus ralhbuni). Resident in northwestern 

 Washington north to Snohomish County and Strait of Juan de Fuca; west to 

 western Clallam County; south to Clallam County and King County; and 

 east to central King County and western Snohomish County. 



CLARKE'S NUTCRACKER 



Clarke's Nutcracker {Nucifraga columbiana) is an interesting and peculiar 

 species allied to the Crows and Jays. It is the only representative of its kind 

 in North America but there are other species in the Old World. It occurs only 

 in the western part of North America, where it breeds north to central British 

 Columbia and northwestern Alaska; west to the coast of Alaska, western 

 British Columbia, western Washington, and western California; south to south- 

 ern California, central Arizona, and northern New Mexico; east to central 

 Colorado, eastern Wyoming, central Montana, and central western Alberta. 

 In winter it ranges south to southern New Mexico and southern Arizona. 

 It is of casual or accidental occurrence south to La Grulla in the San Pedro 

 Martir Mountains in northern Lower California (May, 1889); and east to 

 Margaret, Manitoba (Sept. 7, 1910, and Oct. iqio); Westhope, N. Dak. (Aug. 

 29, 1910); Boone, Iowa (Sept. 2^, 1894); Milwaukee, Wis. (late autumn, 1875); 

 Louisiana, Mo. (Oct. 12, 1907); and Earl, Ark. (April i, 1891). 



PINON JAY 



The breeding range of the Pinon Jay (Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus) is 

 limited chiefly to the region in western North .America in which the pinon 

 pine occurs. This bird is practically resident and breeds north to northern 

 Montana and southern Washington; west to Oregon and California; south to 

 northern Lower Califoinia, .•\rizona. New Mexico, and central western Texas; 

 east to eastern New Mexico, central Colorado, western Nebraska, and eastern 

 Montana. It is also of casual occurrence east to Lawrence, in eastern Kansas 

 (Oct. 23, 1875); and .\eligh, in eastiMii Nebraska (Oct. 2'!^, 1006). 



