WOODHOUSE JAY. 
480. Aphelocoma woodhousei. 12 inches. 
These birds are abundant in the Great Basin between the 
Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas, breeding in scrubby trees 
or bushes at low elevations and usually near some stream. 
They have the crown and forehead bluish, and the under parts 
are gray, streaked with a darker shade on the breast. Their 
food consists of acorns and a variety of insects. 
Nest.—This is usually of small sticks, loosely arranged, 
with smaller twigs and roots for a lining. Four to six eggs, 
of a pale green, faintly spotted with shades of brown (1.20 x 
.90). 
CALIFORNIA JAY. 
481. Aphelocoma californica. 12 inches. 
These are the most common of the Jays on the Pacific 
coast of California, Oregon and Washington. They are more 
tame or fearless than most of the family, and frequent the 
trees about houses, and are given the bad name of robbing 
the nests of other birds of their eggs and young. In color 
these are just the reverse of the previous one, being brownish 
below, and gray above. 
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