The California Jays 



No. 7a Grinnell's California Jay 



A. O. U. No. 481 part. Aphelocoma californica immanis Grinnell. 



Description. — Similar to A. c. californica, but slightly larger and paler both 

 above and below, the blue areas "Chapman's blue" instead of cadet blue; the under 

 tail-coverts usually pure white. Av. of 31: wing 125.9 (4-96); tail 138.5 (5.45); culmen 

 25.4 (1.00); depth at nostril 9.3 (.366); tarsus 40.8 (1.60). 



Range. — "Extreme southern Washington; in Oregon those valleys lying between 

 the Cascades and the Coast Ranges, and south in California through the Sacramento 

 and San Joaquin valleys and the Sierra Nevada. East to the Warner Mountains and 

 the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada." (Swarth). 



Authorities. — Newberry (Cyanocitta californica), Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., vol. 

 vi., pt. iv., 1857, p. 8^;Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, vol. ii., 1895, pp. 374-377 (part) 

 (habits, nest and eggs) ; Beal, Biol. Surv. Bull. no. 34, 1910, pp. 50-56, pi. iii., (part) 

 (food) ; Grinnell, Condor, vol. xiii., 1911, p. 109 (relation to small birds); Oberholser, 

 Condor, vol. xix., 1917, pp. 94, 95 (taxonomy); Swarth, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vol. 

 17, 1918, pp. 415-417, 1 fig. (desc; range; crit.). 



No. 7b Swarth 's California Jay 



A. O. U. No. 481 part. Aphelocoma californica oocleptica Swarth. 



Description. — Like A. c. californica, but averaging slightly larger. Av. of 7: 

 wing 125.4 (4-94); tail !36-7 (5-37); culmen 25.8 (1.02); depth at nostril 9.1 (.36); tarsus 

 41-5 (1-63)- 



Range. — "The Coast region of northern California, west from Mount Diablo 

 and the Coast ranges. North to Humboldt Bay, south to the Golden Gate and the 

 east side of San Francisco Bay." (Swarth). 



Authorities. — Baird {Cyanocitta californica), Rept. Pac. R. R. Surv., vol. ix., 

 1858, p. 5&s;Bendire, Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, vol. ii., 1895, PP- 374"377 (part) pi. v., 

 fig. 15 (habits, nest and eggs); Mailliard, J., Condor, vol. ii., 1900, pp. 58-59, 94-95, 

 126 (habits); Cohen, Osprey, vol. vi., 1902, pp. 1-6, 1 fig. (habits); Mailliard, J. W., 

 Condor, vol. xiv., 1912, p. 42 (nesting); Swarth, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vol. 17, 1918, 

 pp. 413-415, 1 fig. (description of oocleptica; range). 



CALIFORNIA is the land of unfailing contrasts. Hot or cold, 

 wet or dry, green or brown, low or high, you may order what you will 

 (so you order your own movements to correspond), and lo, it is yours 

 within the hour. But most striking of all Californian contrasts, is that 

 ever recurring one between civilization and the wilderness. Does your 

 soul abhor crowds, then escape to the wilderness forthwith and find 

 solace. On a New Year's Day, when Pasadena was threatening to 

 celebrate its annual Festival of Roses, the writer with a nature-loving 

 companion fled to the hills, and at the very moment when the customary 

 queen was being crowned amid the huzzas of a perspiring and dishevelled 

 populace some seven miles away, we were ogling a band of deer as they 

 picked their way daintily over the steep slopes of chaparral. 



Finer yet was a contrast which met my immigrant eyes at Berkeley 



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