Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White 



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605. Lark Bunting (Calamospi^a melanocorys). L. 

 7.2. Ad. <$. Black, patch in wing white, outer tail- 

 feathers tipped, tertials margined with white. Ad. 9 . 

 Above grayish brown streaked with blackish; below 

 white conspicuously streaked with black; all but cen- 

 tral tail-feathers with white tips; broad wing-bars buff. 

 Yng' & Variously intermediate between Ad. tf and ?. 

 (See page 251). 



Range. Western United States, chiefly east of Rockies; breeds 

 from western Kansas and eastern Colorado, north to western Minne- 

 sota and Assiniboia; winters in Mexico; irregular west in migrations 

 to Idaho and southern California. 



484. Canada Jay; Whiskey Jack (Perisoreus cana- 

 densis}. L. 11.5. Ads. Black of hindhead reaching 

 to back of eye; back, wings, and tail gray, belly lighter, 

 throat white; forehead buffy white. Notes, ca-ca-ca 

 and a number of peculiar sounds impossible to repro- 

 duce on paper. (Bendire.) 



Range. Eastern North America; Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 

 northern New England, northern New York, northern Michigan; 

 northern Minnesota, north to Newfoundland and Hudson Bay region, 

 west to the Rockies in Alberta. 



484a. Rocky Mountain Jay (P. c. capitalist. Sim- 

 ilar to No. 484, but head white, black of hindhead 

 grayer and not reaching to eye. 



Range. -Rocky Mountain region from New Mexico and Arizona 

 north to Montana and Idaho. 



484b. Alaskan Jay (P. c. fumifrons] . Very near to 

 No. 484, but forehead averaging more yellowish. 



Range. Alaska; interior and west to Cook Inlet, north of southern 

 coast region. 



484c. Labrador Jay (P. c. nigricapillus) . Similar 

 to No. 484, but black of hindhead deeper and reaching 

 forward as a well defined ring around the eye; below 

 browner. 



Range. Labrador. 



485. Oregon Jay (Perisoreus obscurus}. Similar to 

 No. 484, but back feathers with light shaft streaks, fore- 

 head less white, underparts nearly uniform white. 



Range. Pacific coast from northern California to southern British 

 Columbia. 



485a. Gray Jay (P. o. griseus}. Similar to No. 

 485, but larger and grayer; back, etc., deep mouse 

 gray, instead of brown; below grayish white instead of 

 brownish white. (Ridgw.) 



Range. British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northern 

 California, east of Coast and Cascade Ranges. (Ridgw.) 



491. Clarke Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana}. 

 L. 12. Ads. Gray; wings and middle tail-feathers 

 black, tips of secondaries and outer tail-feathers white. 

 Notes. A loud, harsh, car-r-car-r. 



Range.- Mountains of western North America, from northern Low- 

 er California, Arizona and New Mexico, north to northern Alaska; 

 casually east to Mississippi Valley. 



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