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ins from northern Colorado to British Columbia. The eggs of this sub-species cannot be identified from those of the other varieties. Like the others, their nests are made of sticks plastered together with mud and lined with weeds and rootlets. 478d. QUEEN CHARLOTTE JAY. _Cyanocitta stelleri carlottae._ Range.--Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. 479. FLORIDA JAY. _Aphelocoma cyanea._ Range.--Locally distributed in Florida. All the birds of this genus have no crests or decided markings, are white or grayish below, and more or less intense blue above, with the back grayish or brownish blue. This species is 11.5 inches long, has a pale blue crown and a nearly white forehead. It has a very limited distribution, being confined chiefly to the coast districts of middle Florida, and very abundant in some localities and rare in adjoining ones. They build shallow structures of small sticks and weeds lined with fine rootlets and placed at low elevations in bushes or scrubby trees. The three or four eggs, which are laid in April or May are dull greenish blue, marked with olive brown. Size 1.00 x .80. Data.--Titusville, Fla., April 17, 1899. Nest of sticks in a scrub oak, five feet from the ground. 480. WOODHOUSE'S JAY. _Aphelocoma woodhousei._ Range.--United States west of the Rockies and from Oregon and Wyoming to Mexico. This species has the crown and forehead bluish, and the underparts gray, streaked with bluish gray on the breast. It is also larger than the last, being 12 inches long. They are very abundant in the Great Basin between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas, breeding during April or May in scrubby trees or bushes at low elevations and generally near streams. They lay from three to five eggs of a dull bluish green color, spotted with umber and lilac gray. Size 1.08 x .80. Data.--Iron County, Utah, May 3, 1897. 4 eggs. Nest of sticks and weeds in a small pine tree. [Illustration 308: Florida Jay.] [Illustration: Greenish blue.] [Illustration: Bluish green.] [Illustration: 480-487.] [Illustration: left hand margin.] Page 307 480.1. BLUE-EARED JAY. _Aphelocoma cyanotis._ Range.--Interior of Mexico north to the southern boundary of Texas. The nesting habits of this species are the same as those of the others of the genus and the eggs are similar but the markings are generally more prominent and larger. Size 1.10 x .80. 480.2. TEXAS JAY. _Aphelocoma texana._ Range.--Sou
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