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British Columbia. John Fannin. Very abundant 

 resident. 



Henshaw, 1879. This form of Steller's jay has been 

 traced by the expedition from the Coast and Sierra 

 ranges of southern California into the Cascade mount- 

 ains of Oregon, and so on up to the Columbia River, at 

 which point, however, the form does not cease, but con- 

 tinues into Washington Territory. 



Camp Harney. Bendire. A rare resident. 



Ridgway. We found this jay only among the pines 

 on the Sierra Nevada. 



121. Aphelocoma woodhousei (Baird). WOODHOUSE'S 

 JAY. 



Ridgway. At our camp on the western slope of the 

 Humboldt Mountains it was very abundant in September. 

 In Buena Vista Canon it was also common ; also rather 

 common on the eastern slope of the Ruby Range. 



122. Aphelocoma californica (Vig.) CALIFORNIA JAY. 



San Diego. L. B. Common resident. Campo, Jan- 

 uary, common. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. Common resident; begins 

 to breed about the last of April. 



San Bernardino. F. Stephens. Rare resident of the 

 valley and foothills. Agua Caliente, foothills, probably 

 resident. 



Henshaw, 1876. Found on the mountains to a height 

 of about 5,000 feet; farther up than which it begins to 

 be rare. 



Alameda and Contra Costa counties. W. E. Bryant. 

 Common resident. 



L. B. Common in most of the agricultural districts 

 of California; rarely seen above 3,500 feet in the Sierra, 

 latitute 38. Common at Red Bluff, February, 1885; 



