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90. Pica melanoleuca Yieill., var. hudsonica, Sab. Magpie. 



A single bird in nesting-plumage was shot by Dr. Newberry, jr., at 

 the Kio Puerco, sixty miles west of Wingate, K. Mex. Farther south 

 than this the species was not met with ; and it' occurring in Eastern and 

 Southeastern Arizona, it must, I think, be rare. 



97. Gyanura stellcri (Gm.), var. macrolopha, Bd. Long-crested Jay. 



This jay is one of the most characteristic birds of the western woods? 

 conspicuous alike for its beautiful plumage and its loud and peculiar 

 notes. In habits it is very largely, though not exclusively, pinicoline, 

 being generally found throughout the heavy pine-timber of the mount- 

 ainous districts. It was observed by us to be numerous in such locali- 

 ties, both in Arizona and New Mexico. Like most others of the family, 

 it is gifted with considerable curiosity, which, however, is rarely suffi- 

 cient to overcome its naturally rather suspicious disposition. During 

 the fall they usually move about in small parties of six or eight, and 

 seern to spend considerable time on the ground, hunting after seeds, 

 acorns, and berries, which supplement at this season their usual fare, 

 consisting of the seeds of coniferous trees. I have often come suddenly 

 upon a party when thus silently and busily engaged, searching among 

 the bushes, often not less to my own than to their surprise. A single 

 note was sufficient to alarm the whole flock, when they would betake 

 themselves to the nearest tree, and watch my every motion with evident 

 interest, all the while keeping up a constant chattering and screaming. 

 Their natural distrust, however, would soon induce them to place a 

 wider interval between us, and to approach a second time when they 

 had once flown would have been no easy matter. 



98. Cyanocitta floridana (Bartr.), var. woodhousii, Bd. Woodhouse's 

 Jay. 



A very common species at Wingate, N. Mex., Apache and Grant, 

 Ariz., and elsewhere. Frequents particularly the shrubbery and thick- 

 ets of the hill-sides. Subsists upon nuts, acorns, seeds, berries, insects, 

 and is, in fact, almost omnivorous. 



99. Perisoreus canadensis (L.), var. capitalis, Bd. Kocky Mountain 



Gray Jay. 



Collected in the White Mountains, Arizona, by Dr. dewberry, jr., 

 who found it not uncommon in the forests of spruce and pine. 



