Petelka 1947 Oct. 14 E base Granite Mtn., 4500 ft., Washoe Co., Nevada. The scrub jay was present in a Prunus-Salis-Rosa thicket and was heard calling. The questioning note it gave [the only one heard] did not sound different from the same note of the coastal forms. It responded to squeaking. It proved to be a first-year female about 2/3 through the incomplete fall molt. It was pale dorsally but the posterior underparts appeared to be too white for A. c. nevadacae. Unfortunately, I had to shoot it with a load of ten's or risk losing it; as a result the bird was considerably damaged, most of the upper mandible having been shot away. The west face of the range along the west side of the southern end of the Black Rock Desert is barren and woodland or riparian habitat. Oct. 15 Left the Granite Range this morning; headed southward via Gerlach to Nixon (Paiute Indian Agency) at the southern end of Pyramid Lake. From here we followed the northwestward route along the west side of Pyramid Lake, to Sutcliffe [not shown on Reno quadrangle], where we made inquiries concerning campsites in Virginia Mountains. We were advised to go up a canyon just west of Sutcliffe, onto the TH