222 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Winnepeg south to northern Arizona and New Mexico, and from the eastern 
slope of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada to western North Dakota and 
western Texas; casual in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ontario, and 
the Hudson Bay region; accidental in Quebec. 
Pica nuttalli (AUDUBON). Yellow-billed Magpie. [476.] 
Corvus nuttallii AupUBON, Birds Amer. (folio), IV, 1836, pl. 362, fig. 1. 
(Santa Barbara, California ) 
RanGE.— Upper and Lower Sonoran zones of California, west of 
the Sierra Nevada, from Tehama County to Ventura and Kern 
counties, chiefly in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. 
GENUS CYANOCITTA StricKLAND. 
Cyanocitta STRICKLAND, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., XV, 1845, 261. Type, 
by orig. desig., Corvus cristatus LINNZUs. 
Cyanocitta cristata (LINN £US). 
RanGE.— Eastern North America, from central Canada south to 
the Gulf coast. 
a. Cyanocitta cristata cristata (LiInNm=us). Blue Jay. [477.] 
Corvus cristatus Linnxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 106. (Carolina.) 
RanaeE.— Eastern North America, breeding from central Alberta, south- 
ern Keewatin, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland 
south to the Gulf States, except Florida, and west to western Nebraska, eastern 
Colorado, and central Texas; casual in New Mexico. 
b. Cyanocitta cristata florincola Covers. Florida Blue Jay. [477a.]} 
Cyanocitta cristata florincola Cours, Key N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 421. 
(Hibernia, Clay Co., Florida.) 
Ranece.— Florida. 
Cyanocitta stélleri (GMELIN). 
RanGcE.— Western North America from Alaska south to highlands 
-of Guatemala and Honduras. 
a. Cyanocitta stelleri stelleri (GMELIN). Steller’s Jay. [478.] 
Corvus stelleri GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 370. (Nootka Sound, 
Vancouver Island, B. C.) 
