230 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Nucifraga columbiana (Wilson). Clarke's Nutcracker. [491.] 



Corvus columbianus Wilson, Amer. Orn., Ill, 1811, 29, pi. 20, fig. 2. 

 (Columbia River, between the Dalles and the mouth.) 



Range. — Western North America, breeding in Boreal zones from 

 Bristol Bay, Alaska, west central Alberta, and southwestern South 

 Dakota (Black Hills) south to high mountains of southern California, 

 Arizona, and New Mexico; casual in western Nebraska and east to 

 Missouri and Arkansas ; accidental in Wisconsin, Iowa, and northern 

 I>ower California. 



Genus CYANOCEPHALUS Bonaparte. 



Cyanocephalus Bonapabtb, Osserv. Stato Zool. Eur., 1842, 17. Type, 

 by monotjrpy, Gymnorhinus cyanocephaliis Wibd. 



Cyanocephalus cyanocSphalus (Wied). Pinon Jay. [492.] 



Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus Wied, Reise Nord-America, II, 1841, 22. 

 (Junction of Marias and Yellowstone rivers, Montana.) 



Range. — Upper Sonoran and Transition zones of western North 

 America, breeding chiefly in the pinon and juniper belt of mountains 

 from central Washington, Idaho, and central Montana south to 

 northern Lower California, Arizona, southern New Mexico, and 

 western Texas, and from the Sierra-Cascade Range east to the eastern 

 base of the Rocky Mountains; casual on the coast of California and 

 in eastern Nebraska and Kansas. 



Family STURNID.a:. Starlings. 



Genus STURNUS Linn^us. 



Sturnus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1768, 167. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Stfimus vulgaris Linnaeus. Starling. [493.] 



Sturnus vulgaris Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 167. (Sweden.) 



