422 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Family CORVIDiE : The Ravens, Crows, and Jays. 



*93. Corvus americanus, (Aud.). — Common Crow. 



[Mr. Belding states that this species (which, however, he mistakes for 

 C. caurinus) is "an abundant resident of Central California." The 

 specimen he sends is true americanus, and not C. caurinus. The Crows 

 which the writer observed in the Sacramento Yalley, in June, 18G7, were 

 certainly C. americanus, their notes and habits in no wise differing from 

 those of the Eastern birds of this species. It is probable that C. caur inus 

 is, like the Eastern C. ossifragus, a strictly littoral species, never found 

 awav from tide- water. — E. R.l 



76597 — ad. Stockton Nov. — , 1878 



*94. Picicorvus columbianus, (Wils.). — Clarke's Nutcracker. 



Tins species is very common at Soda Springs and Summit Meadows 

 in the fall, and is said to be a rare winter visitor to the Big Trees. 



* 95. Pica nuttalli, And. — Yellow-billed Magpie. 



This Magpie is a common constant resident of Marysville, and, during 

 some years, at Stockton also, but I did not see it at the latter place from 

 April 1, 1878, to October 18 of the same year, though it was seen in 

 June at many places on the route between Stockton and Marysville. 

 On December 22, 1877, I saw it at Salt Spring Yalley, between Milton 

 and Murphy's (altitude about 1,200 feet). It probably occasionally 

 breeds at Murphy's.* 



3818 d" ad. "Marysville Feb. —,1878 



*96. Cyanocitta stelleri, p. frontalis, Riclgw. — Calif or nian Mountain Jay. 



This Jay is very common in the pine forests in summer, and is a win- 

 ter sojourner of the chaparral belt, especially that part nearest the pine 

 forest. A few breed down to an altitude of 3,000 feet or a little less. 

 It is an occasional winter visitant to the live-oak groves in the Sacra- 

 mento Valley, ten or twelve miles north of Marysville. 



73890 — ad. Murphy * 



Apr. 12, 1877 



97. Aphelocoma californica, (Vig.). — Californian Valley Jay. 



This-is a common constant resident of the valleys and foot-hills, and 

 appears to be quite numerous in the pine forests in summer, as high as 

 Big Trees, where 1 found it in July and August, 1878 ; also at C an liner's 

 Meadow, three miles east of Big Trees, the altitude the same as that of 

 Big Trees ; and at Dunbar's and Moran's Meadows (altitude 3,800 feet). 

 In the pine forests above Murphy's it was confined to the thickets in 



* I lived at Murphy's from the spring of 1857 to 1860, but in summer only. Think I 

 have seen it there formerly, but not recently. 



