CYANOCITTA CALIFORNICA. 525 



among the pines of tlie Wahsatcli Mountains, wliicli formed, apparently, the 

 western hmit 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 siyecimens. 



1284, uest and eggs (6); Parley's Park, Juue 25, 1869. Nest iu small fir-tree, iu 

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

 doned, and several of the eggs broken. 



1373, S ad.; Pack's Gauon, Uintah Mountains, July 5, 1809. 13f— 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 iu the pine-region, situated in a 

 sort of triple fork, near extremity of horizontal branch. 



1375, $ ad.; Pack's Carion,'july 6, 1869. 13^—191. Same remarks. 

 1445, \U6,juv.; Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, July 23, 1809. 



Cyanocitta californica. 



California Valley Jay. 



(Yo-sJwo'-ah of the Washoes.) 



Oarrulus 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. XL, fig. 1. 



ApJielocoma floridana var. californica, CouES, Key, 1872, 106; Check List, 1873, 

 No. 23Cb. 



ApJielocoma floridana. 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 Sierra Nevada, where it was seen 

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

 was also noticed among the oaks of the j^lains, where, however, it was less 

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

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

 ance toward the last of April. 



