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 42 THE CONDOR I Vol. IV toward stelleri, and in the same way we find a bird from Victoria tending toward carbonacea. In view of the excellent material at hand, and as it will probably be some time before a series of spedmens eau be procured from the DESCRIPTION OF out-of-the/way type locality, I have thought it advisable to C_yanocitta stelleri append a description of a bird from Comox, which is on the stelleri. east side of Vancouver Id. in the same latitude as Nootka Sound. Cyanoeitta stelleri stelleri. (Gmelin) Steller Jay. Type of Diagnosis,  ad., Coil. U.S. Nat. Mus. I5t575; Comox, Vancouver ld., B.C., June L 895; collected by F. W. Trne and D. W. Prentiss; orig. No. 8. Back, scapulars, about half lesser wing coverts, and head warm slate black; crest black, fore- head on each side very slightly streaked with blne; the feathers of throat with roesial Parts light mouse gray so as to give throat a lighter shade. Abdomen, sides, flanks, under and upper tail coverts, dull Antwerp-verditer blue, darker on chest. Tertialsand dotsum of tail Berlin blue, barred with black. Wing x47 min., tail r34, exposed ertlmen 32, bill from nostril 24, tarsus 48. This bird is essentially like the Sitka examples. The Steller jay and its races are confined to the wooded districts of the Cana- dian and Transition zones of the west. They are. preemin- DISTRIBUTION. ently birds of the coniferous forests, and are rarely found out of them, except during their short winter rambles. So far as known the bird does not migrate any great distance, but simply comes down from the inclement regions of the mountains, during the midwinter months, in search of food. Cyanocitta slelleri stelleri is characteristic of the Canadian Sitkan District, en- tering the rather boreal Humid Transition on the shores of Vancouver Id. and ad- jacent regions of Washington. Cyanocitta stelleri carlolira is confined to the Queen Charlotte is., which resemble the mainland coast. Cyanocitta stelleri car- bonacea is typically a bird of the Padfie Coast Transition Faunal Area (Humid Transition) south of the Columbia R., ranging into the dilute Canadian of the coast of northern California and Oregon, and to a limited extent into the Arid Transition and Canadian. Cyanocitta stelleri frontalis is characteristic of the greater part of the forested Arid Transition and Canadian of California. Most of the birds from western Washington are intermediate between carbonacea and stelleri but dose to stelleri. In fact it is dif- AR;AS OF ficult to find two birds just alike from Washington. Speci- mens from eastern Washington are annectens. Near the cen- INT;RGRADATION. tral portion of the state it isprobable one would find a mix- ture of stelleri, annectens and carbonacea. The only speci- men I have seen from just east of the Cascades (Goldendale) is unfortunately young and not diagnostic. A bird from Ft. Simpson, B.C. (on the coast) has strong annectens characters; one from Sumas, B. C. (near the Wash- ington boundary)' is typical annectens, whereas a specimen (pro- bably a migrant) from Clinton, B.C. (in the interior) is slelleri. In the coast region of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, California, carbonacea in- tergrades with a small form of frontalis which ranges over the mountains of northern Lower California, and of Southern California south of the Tehachapi. In suitable localities in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Monterey counties, intergradation doubtless occurs toward lite interior with typical J?ontalis, which ranges westward through the Tehachapi Mrs. In Northern California intergrada- tion undoubtedly occurs (from indications of specimens at hand) in the inner coast ranges (western Lake, eastern Mendocino counties, Yallo Bally, Bully Choop Mrs., and 'Shasta Mrs'.), and in the mountains of northern Shasta, eastern Siskiyou, and Modoc counties. The Mt. Shasta jay is intermediate but close to carbonacea. The bird from Ft. Crook in the northeast corner of Shasta Co. is rather nearerfron-