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a. Aphelocoma calif ornica calif omica (VIGORS). California Jay. [481.] 



Garrulus californicus VIGORS, in Zool. Beechey's Voy., 1839, 21, pi. v. 

 (Monterey, California.) 



RANGE. Upper Sonoran Zone of California and southern Oregon west 

 from the eastern base of the Sierra-Cascade Range, and south to San Bernar- 

 dino; an isolated (?) colony on the Columbia River west of the Cascades in 

 Oregon and Washington. 



b. Aphelocoma calif ornica hypoleuca RIDGWAY. Xantus's Jay. [481 a.] 



Aphelocoma californica hypoleuca RIDGWAY, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 

 356. (La Paz, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Southern two-thirds of Lower California. 



c. Aphelocoma californica obscura ANTHONY. Belding's Jay. [4816.] 



Aphelocoma californica obscura ANTHONY, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 

 II, Oct. 11, 1889, 75. (Valladores, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Southern coast district of California from San Fernando and San 

 Bernardino Mountains south to southern end of San Pedro Martir Mountains, 

 Lower California. 



Aphelocoma insularis HENSHAW. Santa Cruz Jay. [481.1.] 



Aphelocoma insularis HENSHAW, Auk, III, Oct., 1886, 452. (Santa Cruz 

 Island, California.) 



RANGE. Santa Cruz Island, California. 



Aphelocoma sieberi (WAGLER). 



RANGE. Southern border of the Mexican tableland north to south- 

 ern Arizona and southern Texas. 



a. [Aphelocoma sieberi sieberi. Extralimital.] 



b. Aphelocoma sieberi arizonse (RIDGWAY). Arizona Jay. [482.] 



Cyanocitta ultramarina var. arizonce RIDGWAY, Bull. Essex Inst., V, Dec., 

 1873, 199. (Old Fort Buchanan, near Crittenden, Pima Co., Arizona.) 



RANGE. Upper Sonoran Zone in southern Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, 

 and Chihuahua. 



c. Aphelocoma sieberi couchi (BAIRD). Couch's Jay. [482a.] 



Cyanocitta couchii BAIRD, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 588. 

 (Monterey, Mexico.) 



RANGE. Chisos Mountains, southwestern Texas, to southern Nuevo Leon 

 and northern Coahuila. 



