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Range. — Pacific coast from Cook Inlet, Alaska, south into Oregon (includ- 

 ing Vancouver and other coastal islands except Prince of Wales Island and 

 the Queen Charlotte Islands). 



b. Cyanocitta stelleri front&lis (Ridgway). Blue-fronted Jay. [478a.] 



Cyanura stelleri vri. frontalis Ridgway, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, V, Jan., 

 1873, 41. (Carson City, Nevada.) 



Range. — Canadian and Transition zones of both slopes of the Sierra Ne- 

 vada from Mt. Shasta south to the San Jacinto and San Pedro Martir 

 moimtains, Lower California, and also the inner coast ranges of northern 

 California (west of Sacramento Valley) from the Bully Choop Mountains 

 south to Mt. St. Helena and Mt. George (east of Napa Valley). 



c. Cyanocitta stelleri diademj.ta (Bonaparte). Iiong-crested Jay. [4786.] 



Cyanogarrulus diadematus Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, I, 1850, 377. 

 (Zacatecas, Mexico.) 



Range. — Transition and Boreal zones of the southern Rocky Mountains 

 from the Wasatch Mountains, Utah, and southern Wyoming to Chihuahua, 

 Sonora, Zacatecas, and Jalisco. 



d. Cyanocitta stelleri annectens (Baird). Black-headed Jay. [478c.] 



Cyanura stelleri var. annectens Baird, in Hist. N. A. Birds, II, 1874, 281. 

 (Hell Gate, east of Missoula, Montana.) 



Range. — Boreal Zone of the northern Rocky Mountains in British Columbia 

 to northeastern Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming; casual in Utah in winter. 



e. Cyanocitta stelleri carlottae Osgood. Queen Charlotte Jay. [478d] 



Cyanocitta stelleri carlottce Osgood, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 21, 1901, 46. 

 (Cmnshewa Inlet, Moresby Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, B. C.) 



Range. — Queen Charlotte and Prince of Wales Islands, British Columbia. 



/. Cyanocitta stelleri carbon&cea Grinnell. Coast Jay. [478e.] 



Cyanocitta stelleri carbonacea Gbinnell, Condor, II, 1900, 127. (Stevens 

 Creek Canon, Santa Clara Co., California.) 



Range. — Breeds in the humid Pacific coast strip from southern Oregon 

 to the Santa Lucia Mountains, CaUfornia, and east to the mountains on the 

 west side of Napa Valley; in winter east to the Gabilan and Mt. Diablo ranges. 



