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season, returning about middle April, breeding in May, and leaving 

 again in late October. Spreading westward rapidly. 



478c. Cyanocitta stelleri annectens (Baird) — Black-headed Jay. 



One record for the state, a bird seen in Sioux county on the tim- 

 ber reserve west of Fort Robinson in April, 1891, by Bruner. This 

 bird is common in eastern Wyoming. The Long-crested Jay, 478b. 

 C. s. diademata (Bonaparte), is the Colorado form, occurring also in 

 southern Wyoming and might occur in winter in southwestern Ne- 

 braska. 



[480. Aphelocoma woodhouseii (Baird) — Woodhottse Jay. This was re- 

 corded in Bruner's list as a common "transient visitor" at North 

 Platte by M. K. Barnum, but it was confused with the Pifion Jay. 

 The Woodhouse Jay, however, is a common resident in Colorado, 

 and has been taken from October to April at Fort Lyon, so may 

 occasionally reach the state.] 



484. Perisoreus canadensis (Linnaeus) — Canada Jay. 



Very rare winter visitor. The only record is the one by Bruner, 

 who saw a specimen of this bird at West Point either the last few days 

 in February or in early March, 1886. There is no question as to iden- 

 tification as the bird was approached to within a few feet. 



484a. Perisoreus canadensis capitalis Ridgway — Rocky Mountain Jay. 



Probably a regular winter visitant to northwest Nebraska. Bruner 

 has noted it three times — near Belmont in the spring of 1889, at the 

 timber reservation west of Ft. Robinson in April, 1891, and at the 

 head of Monroe canyon in February, 1896. 



486. Corvus corax sinuatus (Wagler) — American Raven. 



Formerly frequent, now very rare if not extinct in the state. Aughey 

 says it "was formerly frequently seen in Nebraska, especially in its 

 northern part; latterly (1877) seldom met with." He examined a 

 single one in June, 1865. Bruner has noted it in Brown county and 

 near Sidney. L. Skow reports it from Omaha. Whether any of 

 these records pertain to the eastern form (468a. C. c. principalis Ridg- 

 way) can not now be determined beyond doubt, but it is not probable 

 thaf they do. 



487. Corvus cryptoleucus Couch — White-necked Raven. 



Aughey states that he saw this raven but once in Nebraska, on the 

 Republican river near the west line of the state in April, 1877. Bruner 

 noted it once near Sidney. Now probably extinct within our bor- 

 ders. 



488. *Corvus brachyrhynchos O L. Brehm — Crow. 



Resident over the whole state, abundant eastward, becoming rare 

 westward, but steadily spreading in that direction. Rare west of 

 98th meridian, but reaching regularly up the Niobrara to Long Pine' 

 only once seen at Crawford till Aug., 1903, when Bruner observed 



