Perching Birds Chiefly Gray, Black, or Black and White 



605. Lark Bunting {Calamospi^a melanocor^s). L. 

 l-z. Ad, (S- Black, patch in wing wliite, outer tail- 

 feathers tipped, tertials margined with white. Ad. $. 

 Above grayish brown streaked with blackish; below 

 white conspicuously streaked with black; all but Cen- 

 tral tail -feathers with white tips; broad winsr-bars buff, 

 y^g- <^- Variously intermediate between Ad. J^and j. 

 (See page 251). 



Ranee.— Western United States, chiefly east of Rickies; hrepds 

 from western Kansas and eastern Colorado, north to western Minne- 

 sota and Assfniboia; ; wintetsin Mexico; IrreKuiar wesl in migrations 

 to Idaho and soutliern California. 



484. Canada Jay; Whiskey Jack (Perisoreus cana- 

 dmsis), L. 11,5. Adi, Black of hindheaJ reaching 

 to back of eye; back, wings, and tail gray, belly lighter, 

 throat white; forehead buffy white. Notes, ca-ca-ca 

 and a number of peculiar sounds Impossible to repro- 

 duce on paper. (Bendire.) 



Range. — Eastern North America; Nova Siotia, New BrgHSHict, 

 nortiicrn New England northern New York, northern Miciiigan; 

 northern Minnesoia, north to Newfoundland and Hudson Bay regCan, 

 west to the Roclties In Alberta, 



484a. Rocky Mountain Jay {P. n. capitalis). Sim- 

 ilar to No. 484, but head white, black of hindhead 

 grayer and not reaching to eye. 



Ranee. -Rockv Mbuntain region from New Mexico and Arizona 

 norih to Montana and Idaiio. 



484b. Alaskan Jay (P. c. jUmifrom) . VeryneartO 

 No. 484, but forehead averaging more yellowish- 

 Range. -Aiasltai Interior and west to Cook Inlet, iiorth of soutlieni 

 coast region. 



d84c. Labrador Jay [P. c. nigncapillm), Simih' 

 to No. 484, but black of hindhead deeper and reaching 

 forward as a well detined ring around the eye; below 

 browner. 



Range. — Labrador. 



485. Oregon Jay {Perisorms obscurus). Similar to 

 No. 484, but back feathers with light shaft streaks, fore- 

 head less white, undcrparts nearly uniform white. 



Range .^Pacific coast from northern California to southern Brillsli 

 Columbia. 



485a, Gray Jay (P. o. grissus). Similar to No. 

 485, but larger and grayer; back, etc., deep mouse 

 gray, instead of brown; below grayish white instead of 

 brownish white. (Ridgw.) 



Range. — Brilish Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and nurthem 

 California, east of Coait and Castade Ranges. (Ridgw.) 



491, Clarke ISutcracker {Nucifraga coiamiiana). 

 L. 12. Ads, Gray; wings and middle t:iil-feathers 

 black, tips of secondaries and outer tail-feathers white. 

 Notes. A loud, harsh, car-r-car-r. 



Rang*.— Mountaiiis of western North America, from norttiera Ijiw- 

 er California. Ariiona and New Mexico, north to northern Alasiu; 

 casually east to Mississippi Valley. 



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