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190. Pica pica hudsonia (Sabine). 



Magpie. 



Synonyms — Pica hudsonica; Pica caudata var. hudsonica. 



Status — Secured by Kennedy (1856, p. 10) on tbe Little Colorado River. 

 Recorded by Hensbaw ( 1874, p. 123) from the Rio Puerco, at a point sixty miles 

 west of Wing-ate, New Mexico, and hence well within the Arizona boundary. 

 Not otherwise recorded from the state. 



191. Cyanocitta stelleri diademata (Bonaparte). 



Long-crested Jay. 



Synonyms — Cyanocorax stelleri; Cyanocitta macrolopha ; Cyanurd macro- 

 lopha; Cyanura stelleri var. macrolopha; Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha , Cyai'oai- 

 ta s.'elieri. 



Status — A common resident of the mountains throughout the state from the 

 Transition zone upward. In northern Arizona it ranges west as far as the Grand 

 Canon of the Colorado ( Merriam, 1890, p. 39). and the Hualpai Mountains 

 (Stephens, 1003, p. 102). Though resident at high altitudes it occasionally wand- 

 ers into the lowlands, far from the mountains, as observed at Sacaton in Novem- 

 ber, 1010, by Gilman (1911a, p. 35). 



[92. Aphelocoma woodhousei (Baird). 



Woodhouse Jay. 



Synonyms — Cyanocorax calif ornica; Cyanocitta calif 'arnica ; Cyanocitta wood- 

 honseii; Cyanocitta floridana var. woodhousei; Aphelocoma floridana var. zvood- 

 housei. 



Status — Fairly common resident, mostly in Upper Sonoran, and occurring in 

 favorable localities throughout the state. Has not been observed anywhere in 

 southwestern Arizona, west of Sacaton, nor along the Colorado River below the 

 Grand Canon. 



[93. Aphelocoma sieberi arizonae (Ridgway). 



Arizona Jay. 



Synonyms — Cyanocitta sordida; Cyanocitta ultramarina var. arizonae; 

 Aphelocoma sordida arizonae. 



Status — An abundant resident of the live oak regions of the mountain ranges 

 of southeastern Arizona. It has been reported from the Santa Rita, Chiricahua. 

 Santa Catalina. Huachuca, Dragoon, Whetstone, and Rincon mountains. Mount 

 Graham, and from a point thirty miles south of Camp Apache, apparently the 

 northern limit of the species. 



194. Perisoreus canadensis capitalis Ridgway. 



Rocky Mountain Jay. 



Status — Reported only from the White Mountains, where it is apparently a 

 not uncommon resident (Hensbaw, 1875b, p. 339; Mearns, 1890a, p. 256). 



