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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[No. 7. 



dozen in Tehachapi Valley, California, June 25, and Mr. Palmer 

 found tliem common at Tejon ranch, where they were feeding on figs, 

 early in July. At Monterey, Mr. Bailey heard them cawing in the 

 grounds of the Hotel Del Monte, September 28 to October 9. Mr. Nel- 

 son found crows common in the San Joaquin Valley in October, along 

 the route from San Simeon to Carpenteria, and in the Ojai Valley in 

 November and December. 

 Picicorvus columbianus. Clarke's Nutcracker. 



Clarke's crow was common in the High Sierra in California, as well 

 as in a few of the higher desert ranges to the eastward. It was 

 numerous about the camp in the Charleston Mountains, Nevada, in Feb- 

 ruary. In the Panamint Mountains, California, a solitary individual 

 was seen near the top of the ridge south of Telescope Peak, April 2, 

 and on the north slope of the same peak several were heard, June 23. 

 A pair was seen later in the same day which, from their actions, 

 appeared to be parent and young. Mr. Nelson found it rather common 

 among the Pinus flexilis on the Inyo Mountains, and in the same belt 

 of the White Mountains as well as on the plateau at the head of Owens 

 Valley ; and Mr. Stephens reported it common at Queen mine, in the 

 White Mountains, Nevada, July 11-16. Along the eastern slope of the 

 Sierra, it was abundant at Menache Meadows, May 24-26: at Kear- 

 sarge Pass, June 18-23; at Bishop Creek, August 4-10; and from 2,450 

 meters (8,000 feet) altitude to timber line at the head of Owens Eiver 

 the latter part of July; at Big Meadows and Horse Corral Meadows it 

 was seen August 8-13; in Big Cottonwood Meadows it was very com- 

 mon all summer; at Bound Valley, 12 miles south of Mount Whitney, 

 August 28; and along the route from Soda Springs or Kern River 

 Lakes to Mineral King, early in September. Mr. Nelson found it 

 numerous among piiions on Mount Pinos the later part of October. 



Record of specimens collected of Picicorvus columoianus. 



Col- 

 lector's 

 No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Remarks. 



03 

 421 



430 



d 

 9 



Sierra Nevada, Calif 



do 



do 



do 



May 27, 1831 



Aug. 28, 1891 



Aug. 28, 1891 

 Sept. 4,1891 



F. Stephens 



A. K. Fisher... 

 do 



Summit Meadows, near 

 Olancha Peak. 



Big Cottonwood Mead- 

 ows. 



Round Valley. 



Soda Springs, Kern 

 liiver. 





do.. 







Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus. Pifion Jay. 



The piTi on jay is more or less common on all the desert rauges of 

 southern California and Nevada which are high enough to support a 

 growth of pinons {Pinus monojyhylla), and was found iu a few places on 

 the Sierra Nevada, though in limited numbers. Mr. Nelson found it 

 breeding in the pinon belt in the Panamint, Inyo, White, and Grape- 

 vine mountains, and Mr. Stephens saw a flock of a hundred or more in 

 the latter range toward the end of March. 



