406 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



478. Steller Jay. 



Cyanocitta stelleri (Gmel.) Strickl. 1845. 



This species was common in the vicinity of Hastings and Agassiz, 

 B.C., west of Coast range in May, 1889; abundant around Chilli- 

 wack and Huntingdon, B.C., in the summer of 1901 ; common along 

 the Hope trail and Skagit river, B.C., in 1905; a very common 

 resident throughout Vancouver island, nesting late in April. (Spread- 

 borough.) An abundant resident east and west of the Coast range; 

 breeds both on the island, and on mainland of British Columbia. 

 (Fannin.) Quite common resident in the lower Fraser valley, B.C. 

 (Brooks.) Found only on the coast and west of the Coast range. 

 (Rhoads.) Common along the edge of the timber near the shore 

 wherever I landed around Sitka, Alaska. (Grinnell.) Several 

 specimens were taken by C. H. Townsend at Graham harbour, Cook 

 inlet, Alaska. We did not see it farther up the inlet in Tumagain 

 Arm. (Osgood & Heller.) Osgood found the remains of a Steller 

 jay in the woods at Haine Mission, Lynn canal. (Bishop.) The 

 specimens collected by Figgins at Homer and Sheep creek, Alaska, 

 and by Anderson at Seldovia, described by Chapman as a new sub- 

 species, C. stelleri borealis, are referred to C. stelleri by the A. O. U. 

 Committee. 



478c. Black-headed Jay, 



Cyaiwcitta stelleri annectens (Baird) Ridgw. 1880. 



A specimen of this form was shot in the Rocky mountains by 

 Mr. Drummond about lat. 56°. (Richardson.) This species was 

 met with only high up on the mountains near Ducks, B.C. (Streator.) 

 East of Coast range and in Rocky mountain districts. (Fannin.) 

 This species was taken in the Selkirk mountains at Glacier in Au- 

 gust, 1885; they were then numerous. Very early in April, 1890, 

 when- the snow was on the ground they were in large flocks ; afterwards 

 they scattered and retired to the mountains at Revelstoke, B.C., to 

 breed; one family of them was seen at Robson on the Columbia 

 river, June 19th, 1890. Of the specimens taken, some approach the 

 long-crested jay, having the white spot over the eye quite large and 

 a blue and white frontal patch. Observed at Trail and Waneta, B.C., 

 on the International Boundary in the summer of 1902, not com- 



