WOODHOUSE JAY. Aphelocoma woohousei (Baird)

Field characters.—Similar to those of California Jay (which see). Broad area of chin and throat less clearly white and less sharply set off against blue of side of neck and breast. Voice: As for California Jay.

Occurrence.—Found in small numbers during the fall months in the piñons on Williams Butte, near Mono Lake.

The Woodhouse Jay is a near relative of the California Jay. In appearance it closely resembles the latter bird, differing chiefly in having a slenderer bill, a paler tone of coloration above, and in being less clearly white below. The light area involving the chin and throat is less sharply set off against the adjoining blue.

Two scattered bands of eight and twelve birds, respectively, were seen in the fine stand of piñon pines on the west side of Williams Butte near the summit on September 21 and 22, 1915. These were possibly fall wanderers from farther to the eastward, for none was anywhere seen in the vicinity of Williams Butte during the field work there, from late April until early July, in 1916.