The Gray Jays 

 No. lla Gray Jay 



A. O. U. No. 485a. Perisoreus obscurus griseus Ridgway. 



Synonyms. — As in preceding form. 



Description. — "Similar to P. o. obscurus, but decidedly larger (except feet), 

 and coloration much grayer; back, etc., deep mouse-gray, instead of brown, remiges 

 and tail between neutral gray and smoke-gray, instead of drab-gray, and under parts 

 grayish white instead of brownish white.'" (Ridgway). Length (av. of three northern 

 specimens): 283.5 (11.16); wing 147.6 (5.82); tail 139. 1 (5.48)- bill 19 (.75); tarsus 31.7 

 (1.25). 



Range of P. 0. griseus. — Interior of southern British Columbia and the central 

 and eastern mountain systems of Washington, Oregon, and northern California. 



Range in California. — Sparingly resident in the Boreal zone of northern Cali- 

 fornia east of the humid coastal strip, south to Mt. Lassen. 



Authorities. — Newberry (Perisoreus canadensis), Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., vol. 

 vi., pt. iv., 1857, pp. 85-86; Feilner, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst., for 1864 (1865), pp. 

 427-428 (habits); Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Wheeler Surv., 1879, p. 308: (crit.; habits); 

 Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. x., 1887, pp. 211-212 (part) (habits); Oberholser, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. xxx., 1917, pp. 185-187 (crit.; range); Swarth, Condor, 

 vol. xx., 1918, pp. 83-84 (systematic; range). 



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A NEAR ASPECT OF MOUNT SHASTA 



GRAY JAYS ARE FOUND THROUGHOUT THIS BELT OF SHASTA FIRS 



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