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286. Otocoris alpestris praticola. Prairie Homed Lark. 



Eastern and Central Texas in winter, south as far as San Antonio. 

 Rather irregular in its appearance at Waco, very rare some winters. 



287. Otocoris alpestris ^iraadL Texas Horned Lark. 



Coast prairie region from Galveston south to Brownsville. Resident. 



288. Otocoris alpestris occidentalis. Montezuma Homed Lark. 



Winter resident in the western section of the State. Oberholser ("A 

 review of the Horned Larks of the Genus Otocoris" Proc. U. S. Nat 

 Museum, XXIV, 1902, p. 857.) records examples from Marfa, Laredo, 

 Sierra Blanca, Henrietta and Comanche. 



FAMILY Corvidae. Crows. Jays, etc. 



289. Pica pica hudsonica. American Magpie. 



Occasionally straggles into Western Texas, in the mountains. (McCall, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila, 1851, 217, "Western Texas, lat 59 degrees, 

 15 min., Nov.") Ridgway ("Birds of North and Middle America") in- 

 cludes Texas in the range of this species. 



290. Cyanocitta cristata. Blue Jay. 



Eastem section of the State. Very abundant in East-central Texas 

 (Bosque, Falls, McLennan, Navarro counties). In Southwestern 

 Texas recorded from Leon Springs, San Antonio, Corpus Christi. Ac- 

 cording to Lloyd its westem limit in the State "seems to be near the 

 mouth of the main Concho, where it is tolerably common" (The Auk, 

 IV, 290.) Eastland (Hasbrouck). Specimens from the coast regions 

 and San Antonio were formerly referred to the variety florincola. 

 While not typical cristata, Ridgway in "The Birds of North and Mid- 

 dle America" now refers to these under the head of that subspecies, 

 restricting florincola to the peninsula of Florida. 



291. Cyanocitta stelleri diademata. Long-crested Jay. 



Of tolerably common occurance in the Guadalupe and Davis Moun- 

 tains (Oberholser, The Auk, XIX, p. 300.) 



292. Aphelocoma woodhoosei. Woodhouse Jay. 



Trans-Pecos country, east to the Davis Mountains (Ridgway). Lloyd's 

 record of the occurence of this species in Tom Green and Concho 

 counties, where it "is resident wherever there is shin-oak, at the heads 

 of nearly all the creeks," refers to the species now known as A. texana 

 Ridgway. 



