292 BULLETIK 50, UNITED Sl'ATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Cciitial California, from Ventura, Kern, and Tulare counties on 

 the .south to Tehama County on the north; chiefly the Sacramento and 

 San Joaquin valleys, more rare and irregulai'ly distributed along the 

 coast. 



Pica iiuitaUi AuDUBO'S, Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 450, pi. 362 (Sauta Barbara, Califor- 

 nia; type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 104, pi. 

 228. — Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 27. — Nutt.\ll, Man. Orn. 

 U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 236.— Newberry, Eep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 X, pt. iv, 1857, 84, pi. 26.— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 578; 

 ed. 1860 (Birds X. Am.), atlas, pi. 26; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 433.— 

 Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 54 (w. slope Sierra 

 Nevada, California and Oregon). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 295 (int. valleys 

 and coast a. of Monterey to Santa Barbara). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 38, fig. 3.— Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 

 1877, 519 (Sacramento); Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 287.— Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 66 (Santa Clara Co.). — Amerkax Ornithologists' 

 U.VKi.x, (HifckList, 1886, no. 476.— Evekmann, Auk, iii, 1886, 181 (Ventura 

 Co., California) . — Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 211 (upper 

 Sacramento Valley; habits). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1891, 442 

 ("Columbia River").— Fisher (A. K.), North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 68 

 (Visalia; Tulare Co. ; San Luis Obispo; Santa Ynez R., etc. ). — Bendire, Life 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 355, pi. 3, fig. 14 (egg). — Barlow, The Avifauna, i, 

 1885, 20 (habits).— Fisher (W. Iv.), Condor, ii, 1900, 137 (Mount St. Helena, 

 Napa Co., California). — No.vck, Condor, iv, 1902, 78 (vocal powers). — 

 Bailey (F'lorence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 271. 



F[ica^ niiltitW Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 383. — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 

 2d ed., 1884, 421.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 352.— McGkesor, 

 Auk, xvi, 1891, 78, in text (Shasta Co.). 



Pica niithiUii Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 152. — Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' 

 Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 77 (San Francisco to San Jose). 



Ckqites miitalli Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1847, 46 (Santa Bar- 

 bara; habits). 



{Pica melanoleucu.'] Var nultaUil Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 164. 



Pira melanoleuca . . var. niiUalli Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 2'i'ia. 



[Pica melanoleuca var. Imdsonica'] c. nutlalU Coues, Birds N. "W., 1874, 212 (syn- 

 onymy). 



Pira meliinoleacd. ■iiiCttnlli Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 172 (Sacra- 

 mento). — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 252 (Santa Clara 

 A^alley and Santa Barbara, California). 



]'ii(i citiidata, var. nuitoffi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway', Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 270. 



I'ira nixticd nuttaUi Coues, t'heck List, 2il ed., 1882, no. 348. 



Pllra] r[ii.itini2 iinttatli CoT'Es, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed.,-1884, 421. 



Pirn. ? {Pica var.) imtiam Cooper, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., vi, 1875, 198. 



Genus CALOCITTA Gray. 



Catoc(V,/f/ Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841,50. (Type, Pica hiUlockii \Vajg\er,= P. 



formosa Swainson.) 

 Oillicilla (emendation) CAH.iNis, Mns. Hein., i, Oct., 1851, 225. 

 Ci/aiiiinis (not of Swainson, 1831) Bonaparte, Con.sp. ,\v., i, 1850, 380. (Type, 



Pira hiilliirk'ii Wagler, = P. J'onnOKii Swainson.) 



