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ern Arizona (Santa Catalina Mountains, September, November), New 

 Mexico (San Miguel County, where breeding at 7,000 to 12,000 feet, 

 Raton Mountains, etc.), and western Texas; east to western portion of 

 the Great Plains, and to Lake "Winnipeg; rare or casual winter visitant 

 or straggler to southwest side of Hudson Bay (York Factory), Ontario, 

 Michigan, northeastern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, eastern 

 Nebraska, etc. 



Conms pica (not of Linnseus) Foestbe, Philos. Trans., Ixxii, 1772, 382 (Hudson 

 Bay). — Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 75, pi. 35, fig. 2.— Bonaparte, Journ. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1823, 360, Ann. Lye. N. Y., iii, 1828, 57.— Swainson 

 and EicHAEDsos, Fauna Bor.-Aui., ii, 1831, 292. — Nii'itall, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 219.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv., 1838, 408, pi. 357. 



Pica pica Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 62, part (American references 

 and localities) . 



Corvns hudsonius Sabine, App. Franklin's Journ., 1823, 25, 671 (Cumberland 

 House, Hudson Bay). 



Pica hudsonica Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 27. — Maximilian, Reise 

 in Nord-Amerika, i, 1839, 508 (upper Missouri R.) ; Journ. fiir Orn., iv, 1856, 

 197 (crit.). — WooDHOusE, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 

 77 (New Mexico). — Kenneely, Rep. Pacific E. R. Surv., iv, pt. vi, 1857, 10 

 (Little Colorado E., Arizona); x, pt. 3, 1859, 32 (do.). — Newberry, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1857, 84 (Mptolyas E., Oregon, Columbia R., 

 and n. coast California). — Baied, Rep. Pacific E. E., Surv., ix, 1858, 576; 

 2d ed. I860 (Birds N. Am.), atlas, pi. 25; x, pt. 3, no. 2, 1859, 14 (near 

 Fort Massachusetts and Cochetope Pass, New Mexico) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 



1859, no. 432. — Cooper and Suckley, Eep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 



1860, 213, pi. 25 (Oregon and Washington e. of Cascades; Paget Sound after 

 breeding season). — Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 8 (Forks Saskatchewan, Nov., 

 Feb.; plains Saskatchewan; breeding). — Lord, Proc. Roy. Art. Inst. Wool- 

 wich, iv, 1864, 121 (British Columbia) .— Coues, Ibis, 1865, 159, in text (Raton 

 Mts., New Mexico); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 93 (do.).— Dall and 

 Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 286 (Sitka; Unga, Shumagin 

 group; Kadiak). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 296 (Vancouver I.; Fort Col- 

 ville, Washington). — Stevenson, Prelim. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. for 1870 

 (1871), 465 (Colorado).— HoLDEN and Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1872, 

 204 (Wyoming) .—FiNSOH, Abh. Nat. Brem., iii, 1872, 39 ( Alexandre vsk, 

 Alaska). — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 8 (Shawnee Co., Kansas, Oct.). — Dall, 

 Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., v, 1873, 28 (Shumagins; Alaska peninsula).— ]\Ieeriam, 

 Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1872 (1873), 687 (Idaho; Utah).— Baied, 

 Beewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 38, iig. 1. 



[Pica'] hudsonicus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 382. 



Cleptes hudsonicus Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1847, 46 (New 

 Mexico) . 



[Pica'] melanoleuca var. hudsonica Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 164. 



Pica melanoleuca . . var. hudsonica Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 233. — Yarrow 

 and Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1872 (1874), 20 (e. Nevada; 

 Utah).— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 65 (Den- 

 ver, Colorado), 84 (Fort Garland, Colorado; habits), 123 (Rio Puerco, New 

 Mexico); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 334 (habits); Rep. Orn. Spec. 

 Wheeler's Surv., 1877, 1309 (Carson City, Nevada). 



Pica melanoleuca . . . Var. hudsonica Snow, Birds Kansas, 3d ed., 1875, 8 (rare 

 summer resid.-). 



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