If the Corvine affinities of this bird were nowhere else betrayed, they might be known from the hunger cries of the young. The importunate _añh, añh, añh_ of the expectant bantling, and the subsequent _gullú, gullú, gullú_ of median deglutition (and boundless satisfaction) will always serve to bind the Crow, Magpie, and Nutcracker together in one compact group. When the youngsters are “ready for college,” the reserve of early spring is set aside and the hillsides are made to resound with much practice of that uncanny yell before mentioned. Family groups are gradually obliterated and, along in June, the birds of the foothills begin to retire irregularly to the higher ranges, either to rest up after the exhausting labors of the season, or to revel in midsummer gaiety with scores and hundreds of their fellows. No. 6. PINON JAY. A. O. U. No. 492. Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus (Maxim.). Synonyms.—Blue Crow. Maximilian’s Jay. Pine Jay. Description.—_Adults_: Plumage dull grayish blue, deepening on crown and nape, brightening on cheeks, paling below posteriorly, streaked and grayish white on chin, throat and chest centrally; bill and feet black; iris brown. _Young_ birds duller, gray rather than blue, except on wings and tail. Length of adult males 11.00-12.00; wing 6.00 (154); tail 4.50 (114); bill 1.42 (36); tarsus 1.50 (38). Female somewhat smaller. Recognition Marks.—Robin size; blue color; crow-like aspect. Nesting.—Not supposed to nest in State. General Range.—Piñon and juniper woods of western United States; north to southern British Columbia (interior), Idaho, etc.; south to Northern Lower California, Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas; casually along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mts. Range in Washington.—One record by Capt. Bendire, Fort Simcoe, Yakima Co., June, 1881, “quite numerous.” Presumably casual at close of nesting season. Authorities.—[“Maximilian’s Nutcracker,” Johnson, Rep. Gov. W. T. 1884 (1885), 22.] _Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus_ (Wied), Bendire, Life Hist. N. A. Birds, Vol. II. p. 425 (1895). Specimens.—C. Captain Bendire who is sole authority for the occurrence of this bird in Washington may best be allowed to speak here from his wide experience: “The Piñon Jay, locally known as ‘Nutcracker,’ ‘Maximilian’s Jay,’ ‘Blue Crow,’ and as ‘Pinonario’ by the Mexicans, is rather a common resident in suitable localities throughout the southern portions of its range, while in the northern parts it is only a summer visitor, migrating regularly. It is most abundantly found throughout the piñon and cedar-covered foothills abounding between the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains and the eastern bases of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges in California, Nevada, and Oregon.