The Clark Nutcracker 



No. 3 

 Clark's Nutcracker 



A. O. U. No. 491. Nucifraga Columbiana (Wilson). 



Synonyms. — Clark's Crow. Pine Crow. Gray Crow. "Camp Robber" 

 (Through confusion with the Gray Jay, Perisoreus sp.). "Clarke's" Crow, etc., (name 

 misspelled, as conclusively demonstrated by Coues). 



Description. — Adult in fresh plumage (fall and winter): General body color 

 light neutral gray, changing to white on face all around, including circumocular area: 

 wings glossy black, the secondaries broadly tipped with white; under tail-coverts and 

 four outermost pairs of rectrices white, the fifth pair with outer web chiefly white and 

 the inner web chiefly black, the remaining (central) pair of rectrices and the upper 

 tail-coverts black; axillars and wing linings deep mouse gray to sooty black, often 

 varied by white (in younger specimens?). Bill and feet black; iris brown. Adults in 

 worn plumage [spring and summer) : The gray element changing to brownish, light 

 drab, or even drab (the breast often stained irregularly with olive-brown through 



