222 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Winnepeg south to northern Arizona and New Mexico, and from the eastern 

 slope of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada to western North Dakota and 

 western Texas; casual in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ontario, and 

 the Hudson Bay region; accidental in Quebec. 



Pica nuttalli (Audubon). Yellow-billed Magpie. [476.] 



Corvus nvttaUii AuDtTBON, Birds Amer. (folio), IV, 1836, pi. 362, fig. 1. 

 (Santa Barbara, California ) 



Range. — Upper and Lower Sonoran zones of California, west of 

 the Sierra Nevada, from Tehama County to Ventura and Kern 

 counties, chiefly in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. 



Genus CYANOCITTA Strickland. 



Cyanocitta Strickland, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., XV, 1845, 261. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Corvus cristatus Linn^us. 



Cyanocitta cristata (Linn^us). 



Range. — Eastern North America, from central Canada south to 

 the Gulf coast. 



a. Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linn.s:us). Blue Jay. [477.] 



Corvus cristatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 106. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Eastern North America, breeding from central Alberta, south- 

 ern Keewatin, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland 

 south to the Gulf States, except Florida, and west to western Nebraska, eastern 

 Colorado, and central Texas; casual in New Mexico. 



b. Cyanocitta cristata florincola Cottes. Florida Blue Jay. [477a.] 



Cyanocitta cristata florincola Cotjes, Key N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 421. 

 (Hibernia, Clay Co., Florida.) 



Range. — Florida. 



Cyanocitta st^Ueri (Gmelin). 



Range. — Western North America from Alaska south to highlands 

 of Guatemala and Honduras. 



a. Cyanocitta stelleri stelleri (Gmelin). Steller's Jay. [478.] 



Corvus stelleri Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 370. (Nootka Sound, 

 Vancouver Island, B. C.) 



