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297 (485a) Perisoreus obscurus griseus Ridgway 
Gray JAY 
Synonyms—Perisoreus canadensis; Perisoreus canadensis var. obscurus; 
Perisoreus obscurus, part; Cractes obscurus griseus; Oregon Jay, part; Canada 
Jay. 
Status—Fairly common resident locally in the Boreal zone of northern 
California east of the humid coast belt. Recorded as follows: near Camp Bid- 
well [= Warner Mountains?] (Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler Sury., 1879, p. 308) ; 
Warner Mountains, towards southern end (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; Spanish Springs 
Camp, near Beswick, Shasta County (Ferry, Condor, x, 1908, p. 42); Mount 
Shasta and Mount Lassen (Feilner, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1865, pp. 421, 427). 
There is a record from Summit and Castle Peak, Nevada County (Belding, Proce. 
U.S. Nat. Mus., 1, 1879, p. 423), but this has never been corroborated. 
298 (486) Corvus corax sinuatus Wagler 
WESTERN RAVEN 
Synonyms—Oorvus coraxr; Corvus carnivorus; Corvus corax carnivorus ; 
Corvus cacalotl; Corvus catatotl; Corvus corax clarionensis; Mexican Raven ; 
American Raven; Colorado Raven. 
Status—Common resident locally throughout the state, on the most arid 
deserts and in the northern humid coast belt as well as in the interlying area. 
Now scarce or absent in the most thickly settled counties. Notably numerous on 
and around the islands of the Santa Barbara group. Specimens from there 
have been assigned to another form, clarionensis; but comparison of all available 
material discloses to me no grounds for distinguishing more than one form of 
raven within the state. 
299 (488b) Corvus brachyrhynchos hesperis Ridgway 
WESTERN CROW 
Synonyms—Oorvus americanus; Corvus ossifragus; Corvus cawrinus; Cor- 
vus frugivorus; Corvus frugivorus cawinus; Corvus americanus caurinus; Cor- 
vus americanus hesperis; California Crow; Common Crow. 
Status—Common resident of the interior valleys west of the Sierran divide, 
and of the seacoast and adjacent valleys from Monterey County northward, in- 
cluding the San Francisco Bay region. Fairly common locally in the lowlands 
of the San Diegan district, south to Campo, breeding (Mus. Vert. Zool.). Not 
recorded east of the Sierran divide except in extreme northern California where 
noted east to Fort Crook, eastern Shasta County (Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler Surv., 
1879, p. 303) and at Eagle Lake, Lassen County (J. and J. W. Maillard, MS) ; 
also at Brawley in the Imperial Valley (Van Rossem, Condor, xt, 1911, p. 152). 
The crows of the northwest coast might be expected to approach cawrinus, under 
which name they have been frequently recorded, which, however, they do not 
seem to do, according to the material at hand. 
