Aphelocoma californica obscura

• Interesting Facts
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aphelocoma

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 17 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. california (Western Scrub-Jay) · A. californica (Florida Scrub-Jay) · A. californica californica (Western Scrub-Jay) · A. californica cana (Eagle Mountain Scrub Jay) · A. californica nevadae (Nevada Scrub Jay) · A. californica oocleptica (Nicasio Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens (Desert California Jay) · A. coerulescens cactophila (Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens coerulescens (Florida Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens nevadae (Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens woodhousei (Scrub Jay) · A. insularis (Island Scrub Jay) · A. ultramarina (Grey-Breasted Jay) · A. ultramarina arizonae (Gray-Breasted Jay) · A. ultramarina ultramarina (Gray-Breasted Jay) · A. unicolor (Unicoloured Jay) · A. unicolor unicolor (Unicoloured Jay)

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Further Reading

• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company, 1896. url p. 600.
• A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 600.
• Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies, by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock. .. with ten fullpage plates and seventy-eight drawings in the text by Bruce Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912. url p. 564.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 103, p. 324.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1934 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1934. url p. 52.
• Check-list of North American birds, New York, American ornithologists' union, 1910. url .
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 374.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 212.
• Life histories of North American birds, from the parrots to the grackles, with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs, Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1895. url , .
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. url p. 748, p. 748.
• Nests and eggs of North American birds, Philadelphia, D. McKay[c1900] url .
• North American birds eggs. New York: Dover Pub, [1965]. url p. 232.
• Pacific coast avifauna / Cooper Ornithnological Club of California. Santa Clara, Calif.: The Club, 1900-1974. url p. 45, p. 68.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, The Academy. url p. 249, p. 293, p. 75.
• Special bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1892- url p. 379.
• Supplement to the code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds. adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; prepared by a Committee of the Union. New York: The Union, 1889-1920. url p. 63.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 415, p. 481, p. 63, p. 86.
• The Warbler. Floral Park: Mayflower Pub. Co., [1903-1913] url p. 88.
• The bird book: illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs / by Chester A. Reed. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1915. url p. 307.
• The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url .
• The condor. Santa Clara, Calif.: Cooper Ornithological Club, [1900- url p. 138.
• The standard catalogue of North American birds eggs. Albion, N.Y., F.H. Lattin, 1892. url p. 32.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 432.
• University of California publications in zoology. Berkeley: University Press, 1906- url p. 412.
• Zoe:a biological journal. 4 1893 San Diego, Calif. [etc.]Zoe Publishing Co. url p. 239.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1707186
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2382318

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