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190. Pica pica hudsonia (Sabine). 



MAGPIE. 



Synonyms Pica hudsonica; Pica cantata var. hudsonica. 



Status Secured by Kennerly (1856, p. 10) on the Little Colorado River. 

 Recorded by Henshaw (1874, p. 123) from the Rio Puerco, at a point sixty miles 

 west of Wingate, New Mexico, and hence well within the Arizona boundary. 

 Xot otherwise recorded from the state. 



iyi. Cyanocitta stelleri diademata (Bonaparte). 



LONG-CRESTED JAY. 



Synonyms Cyanocora.v stelleri; Cyanocitta macrolopha; Cyanura macro- 

 lopha; Cyanura stelleri var. macrolopha; Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha, Cyanocit- 

 ta stelleri. 



Status A common resident of the mountains throughout the state from the 

 Transition zone upward. In northern Arizona it ranges west as far as the Grand 

 Canon of the Colorado (Merriam, 1890, p. 39). and the Hualpai Mountains 

 (Stephens, 1903, p. 102). Though resident at high altitudes it occasionally wand- 

 ers into the lowlands, far from the mountains, as observed at Sacaton in Novem- 

 ber, 1010, by Oilman (i9iia, p. 35). 



192. Aphelocoma woodhousei (Baird). 



WOODHOUSE JAY. 



Synonyms Cyanocora.v calif ornica; Cyanocitta calif ornica; Cyanocitta ivood- 

 honseii; Cyanocitta floridana var. zvoodhonsei; Aphelocoma floridana var. wood- 

 honsei. 



Status Fairly common resident, mostly in Upper Sonoran, and occurring in 

 favorable localities throughout the state. Has not been observed anywhere in 

 southwestern Arizona, west of Sacaton, nor along the Colorado River below the 

 Grand Canon. 



193. Aphelocoma sieberi arizonae (Ridgway). 



ARIZONA JAY. 



Synonyms Cyanocitta sordida; Cyanocitta nltramarina var. arizonae; 

 Aphelocoma sordida arizonae. 



Status An abundant resident of the live oak regions of the mountain ranges 

 of southeastern Arizona. It has been reported from the Santa Rita, Chiricahua, 

 Santa Catalina, Huachuca, Dragoon, Whetstone, and Rincon mountains, Mount 

 Graham, and from a point thirty miles south of Camp Apache, apparently the 

 northern limit of the species. 



194. Perisoreus canadensis capitalis Ridgway. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN JAY. 



Status Reported only from the White Mountains, where it is apparently a 

 not uncommon resident (Henshaw, i875b, p. 339; Mearns, 18903, p. 256). 



