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Otocoris insularis; Phileremos cornutus, part; Otocoris alpestris, part; Eremo- 
phila alpestris var. chrysolaema, part; Streaked Horned Lark, part. 
Status—Common resident on all of the Santa Barbara Islands: San Cle- 
mente (Townsend, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., xi, 1890, pp. 140, 141; and many 
other records), Santa Catalina (Bendire, Life Hist., 1, 1895, p. 347; and others), 
San Nicolas (J. Grinnell, Rep. Bds. Santa Barbara Ids., 1897, p. 10; and others), 
Santa Barbara Island (J. G. Cooper, Proce. Calif. Acad. Sci., 1v, 1870, p. 78; and 
other records), Anacapa (Willett, Condor, xm, 1910, p. 172), Santa Cruz Island 
(Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler Surv., 1876, p. 248; and others), Santa Rosa Island 
(Townsend, loc. cit.), and San Miguel (Streator, Orn. & Ool., xm, 1888, p. 54; 
and others). Of casual occurrence in winter on the mainland coast: Alamitos 
Bay, Los Angeles County, “‘December 4’’ [= January 18] (Linton, Condor, x, 
1908, p. 181). 
289 (475) Pica pica hudsonia (Sabine) 
BuACK-BILLED MAGPIE 
Synonyms—Pica pica; Pica hudsonica; Pica melanoleuca hudsonica; Am- 
erican Magpie. 
Status—Common resident in Transition and Upper Sonoran zones northeast 
of the Sierran divide, that is, in the Modoe region. Recorded south along the 
eastern margin of the state through the Tahoe district to Mono Lake (W. K. 
Fisher, Condor, 1v, 1902, p. 11) and even to Independence, Inyo County (Swarth, 
MS), and west along the northern boundary as far as Shasta Valley (C. H. Mer- 
riam, N. Amer. Fauna no. 16, 1899, p. 118). 
290 (476) Pica nuttalli (Audubon) 
YELLOW-BILLED MAGPIE 
Synonyms—Corvus nuttalli; Corvus pica; Pica melanoleuca nuttalli; Pica 
melanoleuca; Cleptes nuttalli; Pica caudata var. nuttalli. 
Status—Common resident locally in Upper and Lower Sonoran zones west 
of the Sierra Nevada, chiefly in the San Joaquin-Sacramento basin. Recorded 
north as far as Red Bluff, Tehama County (Townsend, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., x, 
1887, p. 211; Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; west, north of the latitude of San Francisco Bay, 
to Mount Saint Helena (W. K. Fisher, Condor, 1, 1900, p. 137), east to Clipper 
Gap, Placer County (Adams, Placer Co. Inst. Res., 1909, p. 35) ; south in the 
San Joaquin Valley to the Tulare Lake region (Goldman, Condor, x, 1908, p. 
204), and vicinity of Visalia (A. K. Fisher, N. Amer. Fauna no. 7, 1893, p. 86) ; 
west, south of San Francisco Bay, to Watsonville, Santa Cruz County (Hunter, 
Condor, v1, 1904, p. 24), and to the coast of southern Monterey County (Jenkins, 
Condor, vi, 1906, p. 127) ; south through the inner coastal valleys as far as 
Santa Paula, Ventura County (Evermann, Auk, 1m, 1886, p. 181) and formerly 
or rarely to Simi and Conejo valleys, Ventura County ( Willett, Pac. Coast Avif. 
no. 7, 1912, p. 67). Now less common and much more restricted in range than 
formerly. There are early records for San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz, 
Monterey, Santa Barbara, and even San Diego. The last named station may, 
however, have been given erroneously. 
