Mr. Elliott Coues on Picicorvus columbianus. 59 



but Cooper (/. c.) puts the case in this shape : — " Near Fort 

 Colville, Washington Territory, Mr. J. K. Lord found this 

 species arriving in May in immense flocks, making a tremendous 

 chattering for about a week, and then pairing off. A nest he 

 saw was on the top of a pine tree 200 feet high, which was cut 

 down on the boundary. It was composed of fir twigs, bark, 

 leaves of pine, and fine root-fibres, with some moss and gray 

 lichen — very large and shallow. The eggs were about four, of 

 a light bluish-green.^' 



In conclusion, I would say that I have collected, for con- 

 venience of future reference, a number of quotations, which, how- 

 ever, I would recommend you to print, if at all, in a foot-note. 

 Synonymy does not make "juicy ^' reading; and the dryness 

 of what you have already had renders further exsiccation in- 

 expedient ! — 



CoRvus COLUMBIANUS, Wils. A. 0. iii. 1811j p. 29, pi. 20, 

 f. 2 (descr. orig.) ; Bp. Obs. Wils. 1824, no. 38, and Syn. 1828, 

 57; Jamieson's ed. Wils. i. 1831, 249; Nutt. Man. Orn. i. 1832, 

 218; Brewer's ed. Wils. 1840, 209, f. 94; Blyth, in Cuv. 

 R. A. Am. ed. 1849, 204. 



Nucifraya columbiana, Aud. 0. B. iv. 1838, 459, pi. 362, 

 and Syn. 1839, 156, and B. A. iv. 1842, 127, pi. 235; Bp. 

 C. & G. L. 1838, p. 28; Nutt. Man. Orn. 1840, i. 251. 



Nucifraga [Picicorvus] columbiana, Gray, Hand-L. pt. ii. p. 9. 



Picicorvus columbianus, Bp. C. A. 1850, i. 384; Newberry, 

 P. R. R. Rep. vi. 1857, pt. iv. 83; Baird, ibid. ix. 1858, 

 p. 573 (R. Mts. to Pac; E. to Ft. Kearney, p. 925, Canton 

 Burgywn, N. M. & Ft. Tejon, Cal.) ; Kennerly, ibid. x. pt. iv. 

 32 (75 m. W. Albuquerque, N.W.) ; Coop. & Suckl. ibid. 

 xii. pt. ii. 212 (AVash. & Oreg. to Nebraska) ; Hayden, Geol. 

 & N. H. of Up. Missouri, Philad. 4to, 1862, p. 171 (Ft. La- 

 ramie) ; Coues, Pr. A. N. S. Phil. 1866, 55 (Fort Whipple, 

 Ariz.) ; Lord, Nat. in Vancouver's Island, ii. 1860, p. (breed- 

 ing near Ft. Colville, W. T.) ; Dall & Bannister, Trans. Chi- 

 cago Acad. i. 1869, 286 (Sitka) ; Coop. Cal. Orn. i. 1811, 289, 

 with 3 figs. 



Baltimore, Ind., U.S., Nov. 4, 1871. 



