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llll-: C.\I.II"( )K.\IA |A%. 



Ranxe in NN'ashinjjton. — Of limited liiil rc-jjiilar i>cciirrfiice alonu tlie liaiiks 

 (.»f till' (.■iilimil)ia west of the Cascades. Resident. 



Authorities. — ['California Jay," Johnson Rep. CjOV. \V. T. 1884 ( 1885), 22]. 

 (Heldiuf,'. Land I'.irds I'ac. Dist. (i8<»()) p. iii|. .iphelocuvni ciilijuruicii. Law- 

 rence, Atik. July. |8<>J. ]). 30! . 



Specimens. — C. 



TIIRL' tile western i>art of ( )re}.;on the hreedin}; limits of the California 

 Jay <li> not c.vlend as far north as the Colnmhia River. I have never 

 known of this species nestinjj ahont Portland, yet thirty miles south and 

 southwest it is not 

 at all uncommon. 

 Thru the Willam- 

 ette X'alley. one 

 meets this l)ird 

 alM)Ut as often as 

 the Steller Jay. 

 The hahits of tiie 

 two jays are much 

 the same, yet the 

 liirds are easily 

 (listinfjiiished l>y 

 their dress, the 

 California J a y 

 havinjx more re- 

 semblance to the 

 Hlue Jay of the 

 L'ast in color Imt 

 lackintj the crest, 

 while the Steller 

 Jay has a dark 

 l>luc and hlackisli 

 coat with the louy 

 crest . 



.Accordiufi to 

 popular opinion, 

 the California Jay 

 is a bird of had 

 rejnitation. Many 

 people think he 

 does nothing hut 

 fjo alniut wreck- 

 injj the homes of vol-.\c. c.m.ifokm.v i.w 



