1942, Marshall Cyanocitta stelleri Los Esesmiles March 8 1934 taken from little lone cypress above a patch of brush in cleared area (next to our house). Was with 5 or 6 Cissilopha melanoganea which were down in the brush. Its call was not familiar but was resolvable into the Redtailed Hawk call of frontalis - 2-300 yards away from forest! w. slope Los Esesmiles April! Common in pines where behaved more as would expect this sp. - climbing around trunk upward on twigs of pines etc - calls v. Took 8's 2243 & 2244. [Stirt's specimen came from brush in canyon not near cloud forest.].