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vus cryptoleucus Couch) may occur in this.region. It was reported at 
Galisteo, south of Santa Fe, by Goss.! 
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Nueifraga columbiana (Wilson). Clarke’s Nutcracker. 
Several were seen in the Jemez Mountains near Valle Grande, and 
two in Alamo Canyon, about five miles south of El Rito de los Frijoles. 
They were above the pifon belt. Gray, with black wings and tail, 
white patch on wing and white outer tail-feathers, this is a striking 
bird in flight. McCall? found it ‘“‘in the high pine forests east of 
Santa Fe and on the Taos Mountain.” 
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Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus (Wied). Piftion Jay. 
See discussion of this species under Woodhouse’s jay (pp. 39-40). 
McCall’s * Cyanocorax cassinii is a synonym of this species. 
2 
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Bonaparte). Yellow-headed 
Blackbird. 
Described and reported in the Rio Grande Valley near San Ilde- 
fonso by our Indian informants, who say they use it for food and 
that it is seen only in the winter, associated with red-winged black- 
birds. 
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Agelaius pheniceus fortis Ridgway. Thick-billed Red-wing(?). 
Reported in the Rio Grande Valley by our San Ildefonso Indian 
informants, who correctly described the differences between the male 
and the female, and their nesting sites and habits. They said that 
the birds are eaten by the Tewa. This subspecies may be A. p. neu- 
tralis Ridgway. 
2 
Carpodacus cassini Baird. Cassin’s Purple Finch. 
Reported by Kennerly* on “Pueblo Creek”’ (probably near Taos), 
January 22, 1854. We have found no subsequent record, though 
the species probably occurs regularly in the region in the winter. 
The creek on which Taos pueblo is situated is called Pueblo Creek 
above its confluence with Arroyo Hondo; the creek north of which 
Picuris pueblo lies is called Pueblo Creek above its confluence with 
Pefiasco Creek. 
2 
Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis (Say). House Finch. 
1 Goss, Nathaniel 8., White-Necked Raven ( Corvus cryptoleucus) in New Mexico, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 
VI, p. 118, 1881. 
2 McCall, George A., op. cit., p. 217. 
3 Tbid., pp. 216-17. 
* Kennerly, C. B. R., Report on Birds Collected on the Route, Zoological Report, No. 3, p. 27, Explor. 
& Surv. for R. Rk. from Miss. to Pac, Ocean, U.S, War Dept., X, 1859. 
