360 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
(1.01), tarsus 1.30-1.42 (1.37). Hab. Alaska, except southern 
coast-district. 
484). P. canadensis fumifrons Rinaw. Alaskan Jay. 
u. Adult with whole head white, except occiput, which is plumbeous gray, this 
color not reaching anteriorly to the eye; young with top of head dull 
white, tinged with grayish brown. 
Adult: Head and neck pure white, the occiput and upper hind-neck 
deep plumbeous-gray ; back and other upper parts lighter plumbeous- 
gray; breast, belly, sides, and flanks light brownish gray. Young: 
Nasal tufts, lores, and orbits blackish dusky; whole crown, and a 
broad malar stripe, dull whitish, tinged with pale brownish gray ; 
throat dusky grayish; rest of lower parts more brownish gray, the 
feathers of belly, etc., tipped with paler. Length about 11.25- 
13.00, wing 5.90--6.30 (6.10), tail 5.80-6.35 (6.07), culmen .97-1.08 
(1.03), tarsus 1.35-1.44 (1.40). Mest in coniferous trees, bulky 
(about 7.00 across by 4.00 in height), composed of dead twigs, 
pine-needles, dried grasses, strips of bark, etc., lined with finer vege- 
table materials, feathers, etc. ; cavity about 4.00 across by 2.00 deep. 
Eggs 3-5, 1.16 X .86, grayish white, speckled with various shades of 
brown. Hab. Rocky Mountains, south to Arizona (White Moun- 
tains) and New Mexico, north into British America. 
484a. P. canadensis capitalis Bairp. Rocky Mountain Jay. 
a’, Feathers of back with distinct paler shaft-streaks; breast, belly, sides, and 
flanks white, like throat and chest. 
Adult: Upper half of head, except forehead and nasal tufts, sooty black ; 
forehead and nasal tufts white, sometimes tinged with brownish; back 
and scapulars varying from dull brownish gray to sepia-brown, the 
feathers with distinct though narrow whitish shaft-streaks ; wings and 
tail brownish gray, the wing-coverts, tertials, and tail-feathers narrowly 
(sometimes indistinctly) tipped with whitish; lower parts entirely 
white, sometimes very faintly tinged posteriorly with pale brownish or 
brownish gray. Young: Dull grayish sooty brown, paler and more 
decidedly brownish below, darkest on top of head. Length about 9.50- 
11.00, wing 5.15-5.75 (5.53), tail 5.20-5.90 (5.56), culmen .84-.99 (.92), 
tarsus 1.23-1.40 (1.30). Zggs 1.04 x .79, grayish white, greenish white, 
or very pale grayish green, speckled with hair-brown and lilac-gray. 
Hab. Northwest coast, from northern California (Humboldt Bay) and 
northern Sierra Nevada (both slopes) north to British Columbia. 
485. P. obscurus Ripew. Oregon Jay. 
Genus CORVUS Linnavs. (Page 351, pl. XCVIL, fig. 1; pl. XCVIIL,, fig. 1.) 
Species. 
Common Cuaracters.—Entirely black, the plumage more or less glossy. West 
a bulky structure of coarse sticks, etc., in trees or on cliffs (according to the 
