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Nucifraga columbiana (Witson). Clarke’s Nutcracker. [491.] 
Corvus columbianus Wiuson, Amer. Orn., III, 1811, 29, pl. 20, fig. 2. 
(Columbia River, between the Dalles and the mouth.) 
RanceEe.— Western North America, breeding in Boreal zones from 
Bristol Bay, Alaska, west central Alberta, and southwestern South 
Dakota (Black Hills) south to high mountains of southern California, 
Arizona, and New Mexico; casual in western Nebraska and east to 
Missouri and Arkansas; accidental in Wisconsin, Iowa, and northern 
Lower California. 
GENUS CYANOCEPHALUS Bonaparte. 
Cyanocephalus BONAPARTE, Osserv. Stato Zool. Eur., 1842, 17. Type, 
by monotypy, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus WiEp. 
Cyanocéphalus cyanocéphalus (Wikp). Pinon Jay. [492.] 
Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus Wimp, Reise Nord-America, II, 1841, 22. 
(Junction of Marias and Yellowstone rivers, Montana.) 
RanGcE.— Upper Sonoran and ‘Transition zones of western North 
America, breeding chiefly in the pifion and juniper belt of mountains 
from central Washington, Idaho, and central Montana south to 
northern Lower California, Arizona, southern New Mexico, and 
western Texas, and from the Sierra-Cascade Range east to the eastern 
base of the Rocky Mountains; casual on the coast of California and 
in eastern Nebraska and Kansas. 
Famity STURNIDA. STARLINGs. 
GENUS STURNUS LINN ZXUS. 
Sturnus Linn=us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 167. Type, by subs. desig., 
Sturnus vulgaris Linnmus (Gray, 1840). 
Stamus vulgaris Linnavus. Starling. [493.] 
Sturnus vulgaris Linn&mus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 167. (Sweden.) 
