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about 6,000 feet upward; rare at Summit and Donner 

 Lake November 12-16; not at Big Trees January, 1879. 

 Abundant on the Summit (latitude 39° 15') in autumn 

 of 1885, invariably moving southward. This migration 

 began about August 15. Mr. Ridgway (Bull. Essex 

 Inst.) found it abundant at Carson, thirty or forty miles 

 distant, in the winter of 1867-68. They frequently come 

 about kitchens for the refuse, and mountaineers are 

 compelled to enclose carcasses of sheep in sacks in order 

 to prevent these birds from eating the meat. 



Blood's. W. E. Bryant.— June 25, 1885, two caught 

 alive in a log storehouse, which they probably entered 

 for the meat hanging there. 



Henshaw, 1876. During September met with in great 

 nuinbers. 



Tahachapi. L. B. — Moderately common in the pines. 



San Bernardino -Mountains. F. Stevens. — Rare resi- 

 dent or winter visitant. 



129. Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus (Wied). Pinon 

 Jay. 



Cooper, 1870. I am told by Mr. Clarence King that 

 they frequent the junipers on mountains near Mariposa. 



Summit. L. B. — November 14, 1884, one bird; 

 September 25, 1885, one specimen, which was alone. 

 September 29, about twenty following the divide south- 

 ward. September 30, two specimens. Lake Tahoe, 

 September, 1889; numerous sojourner. 



Newberry. "We first noticed this bird in the Des 

 Chutes Basin, latitude 44° 12', in September, every morn- 

 ing flocks of from twenty-five to thirty, etc.; fifty miles 

 farther north they were feeding on the berries of the 

 cedar (Junipcras occidentalis ) . 



Henshaw, 1879. At certain points in the Des Chutes 

 Basin it was noticed in great numbers. 



