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293 (480) Aphelocoma woodhousei (Baird) 
WoopHOoUSE JAY 
Status—Fairly common resident locally in arid parts of the Upper Sonoran 
zone cast of the Sierran divide. Recorded as follows: between Chat and Beck- 
with Pass, eastern Lassen County (Ray, Osprey, v, 1901, p. 117); White, Inyo, 
Argus, Coso, and Panamint mountains (A. K. Fisher, N. Amer. Fauna no. 7, 
1893, p. 69) ; east slope of Sierra Nevada, near Carroll Creek, Inyo County (Mus. 
Vert. Zool.) ; Providence Mountains, northeastern San Bernardino County (F. 
Stephens, Condor, v, 1903, p. 102) ; New York Mountain, at eastern end of Provi- 
dence Range (Hollister, Auk, xxv, 1908, p. 460). 
294 (481-+-481b) Aphelocoma californica californica (Vigors) 
CALIFORNIA JAY 
Synonyms—Garrulus californicus; Cyanocitta californica; Cyanocorax cal- 
ifornicus; Garrulus ultramarinus; Corvus ultramarinus; Cyanocitta floridana 
californicus, part; Aphelocoma floridana var. californica; Aphelocoma califor- 
nica obscura; Belding Jay. 
Status—Common resident of the Upper Sonoran zone, chiefly west of the 
Sierran divide. Ranges locally up into Transition, especially in the humid coast 
belt. Occurs on the east slope of the Sierras as well as on the west, in some 
places, as near Owens Lake (Bendire, Life Hist., u, 1895, p. 374; Mus. Vert. 
Zool.), Mono Lake (W. K. Fisher, Condor, 1v, 1902, p. 11), and northeastward 
through the Modoc region to west and east bases of the Warner Mountains (Mus. 
Vert. Zool.). Northernmost record along or near the coast: Hoopa Valley, Hum- 
boldt County (W. K. Fisher, Condor, vi, 1904, p. 51), next interiorly, Helena, 
Trinity County (Mus. Vert. Zool.). Abundant south through the coast region 
the whole length of the state. In the San Diegan district the species occurs on 
the desert slopes of the mountain ranges, but has not been observed beyond their 
eastern bases. There appear to be no adequate grounds for the recognition of 
a subspecies obscura in extreme southern California (see J. Grinnell and Swarth, 
Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., x, 1913, pp. 261-262). 
295 (481.1) Aphelocoma insularis Henshaw 
Santa Cruz Isuanp JAy 
Synonyms—Cyanocitta floridana var. californica, part; Santa Cruz Jay. 
Status—Common resident on the wooded portions of Santa Cruz Island (see 
Willett, Pac. Coast Avif. no. 7, 1912, p. 68). 
296 (485) Perisoreus obscurus obscurus Ridgway 
OrEGON JAY 
Synonym—Cractes obscurus. 
Status—Fairly common resident in Transition and Boreal in the north- 
ern humid coast belt. Recorded repeatedly from the vicinity of Humboldt Bay; 
also from Orick, Humboldt County (Ferry, Condor, x, 1908, p. 42), and from 
near Mendocino, Mendocino County (Heller, Condor, tv, 1902, p. 46); the lat- 
ter is the southernmost record. 
