CYANOCITTA CALIFORNICA. 525 



among the pines of the Wahsatch Mountains, wliich formed, apparently, the 

 western limit of its range. It was there by no means common, but became 

 more so as we proceeded eastward into the Uintahs, where it was compara- 

 tively plentiful. In its habits and manners it seemed a perfect counterpart 

 of C. frontalis, but its notes appeared to be less sonorous than those of 

 that form. 



List of specimens. 



]284, uest and eggs (G); Parley's Park, June 25, 1869. Nest in small fir-tree, in 

 edge of woods, saddled on horizontal branch, about 15 feet from ground. Nest aban- 

 doned, and several of the eggs broken. 



1373, S ad.; Pack's Cauon, Uintah Mountains, July 5, 18G9. 13|— 19. Bill, 

 black; iris, brown; legs and feet, black. 



1374, nest (of preceding, contained three fully-fledged young). Nest on mountain- 

 mahogany tree, on side of ravine of a secluded canon in the pine-region, situated in a 

 sort of triple fork, near extremity of horizontal branch. 



1375, i ad.; Pack's Cafion, July G, 18C9. 13^— 19i. Same remarks. 

 1445, 1446, j«r.; Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, July 23, 1809. 



Cyanocitta CALITORNICA. 



Calirornia Valley Jay. 



{Yo-shoo'-ah of the Washoes.) 



Oarriilus californicus, Vigors, Zool. Beechey's Voy., 1839, 21, pi. v. 



Cyanocitta californica, Strickl., Ann. Mag. XV, 1845, 342.— Baird, Birds N. 

 Am., 1858,584; Cat. N.Am. Birds, 1859, No. 437.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 

 1870, 302.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, II, 1874, 288, pi. xi., fig. 1. 



Aphelocoma floridana var. californica, CouES, Key, 1872, 1G6; Check List, 1873, 

 No. 23Gb. 



Aphelocoma foridana. c. californica, CouES, Birds N.W., 1874, 219. 



The common "Valley Jay" of California was observed in abundance 

 only among the western foot-hills of the Sien-a Nevada, where it was seen 

 both in the brushwood of tlie ravines and among the scattered pines. It 

 was also noticed among the oaks of tlie plains, where, however, it was less 

 plentiful. On the eastern slope it appeared to be quite common, at least 

 on the foot-hills near Carson City, where, in 1868, it made its first appear- 

 ance toward the last of April. 



