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an adjoining tree, when it began to ascend by hopping from one hmb to 

 another, at the same time uttering a very perfect imitation of the squeahng 

 note of the Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo boreaUs), apparently for the purpose 

 of preventing pursuit. 



On the 24th of February, 1868, dui-ing a protracted period of extreme 

 cold weather, with deep snows on the mountains, we observed a pair of 

 these Jays in a shade-tree on one of the back streets of Carson City; but 

 they appeared ill at ease so near the habitations of man, skulking about, as 

 if afraid of being seen in town, and evidently anxious to return to their 

 native woods. 



List of specimens. 



321, (? ? ad.; El Dorado County, California. Presented by Mr. H. G. Parker. 

 12J-(?)-5i-4H-li-14-5i-4i. 



322, S ? ad.; El Dorado County, California. Presented by Mr. H. G. Parker. 

 12§_(?)_6-45-li-lJ-5|-3^. 



328, ^ ad.; Carson City, Nevada, November 27, 1867. 12^— 17|— G— 4^— 1^— li 

 — 5| — 3i. Bill, tarsi, and toes, deep black ; iris, vaudyke-brown. 



329, 9 ad. (mate of preceding); Carson City, Nevada, November 27, 1867. 12 — 

 17-53-4f-lJ-H-5i-4. 



330, 9 ad.; Carson City, Nevada, November 27, 1867. 12— 17^— of— 4^9^—1— 1^9^ 



445, i ad.; Carson City, March 21, 1868. 12§— 18— 6— 5. Bill, tarsi, and toes, 

 black ; iris, bister. 



477, <? ad.; Carson City, March 30, 1868. 12—17^-6—45. 



497, i ad.; Carson City, April 18, 1868. 13— 18§— 6^— 5^. Bill, tarsi, and toes, 

 deep black; iris, bister. [Type of war. frontalis, Ridgw., 1. c] 



498, ? ad. (mate of preceding); Carson City, April 18, 1868. 11^17^— 5fi— 4|. 

 [Type of VHT. frontalis, Ridgw., 1. c] 



Cyanura macrolopha. 



Long:-ci-e«tv«l Jay. 



Cyanocitta macrolopha, Baibd, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1854, 118. 



Cyanura macrolophus, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 582; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 



No. 436.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 300, 

 Cyanura stelleri var. macrolopha, Allen, Bull. Mus. Zool., Ill, 1872, 178. — CouES, 



Key, 1872, 165, fig. 107 ; Check List, 1873, No. 235a.— B. B. & R., Hist. N. 



Am. Birds, II, 1874, 281, pi. xxix, fig. 3.— Henshaw, 1875, 335. 

 Cyanura coronata var. macrolopha, Ridgw., Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, V, Jan., 



1873, 43. 



This more eastern representative of Steller's Jay was first met with 



