Mat 4, 1920 Vol. VII, pp. 51-52 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



A NEW JAY FROM ALBERTA 



BY JAMES LEE PETERS 



In a recent article^ P. A. Taverner states that Canada Jays 

 from the region about Red Deer, Alberta, "should probably be 

 referred to P. c. canadensis.'^ In the collection of the late Wil- 

 liam Brewster, now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 were five adults of this species from Red Deer, Alberta, taken 

 between the 4th and 18th of March, 1897. These hardly need 

 comparison to show that they belong to an undescribed race, 

 which I propose to call 



Perisoreus canadensis albescens subsp. nov. 



Type, no. 247,526, collection of Museum of Comparative Zoology, adult 

 male. Red Deer, Alberta, March 18, 1897, collected by G. F. Dippie. 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to P. c. capitalis, but smaller; paler 

 above, much paler below; lower breast, flanks, and abdomen, pale smoky 

 gray with only a faint drab wash. Similar also to P. c. canadensis in size 

 and in the extent of white on the crown, but much paler throughout. 



1 The Birds of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Auk Vol. XXXVI, 1919, 252. 



