Aphelocoma Sept. 6 NW of Prisoner's Harbor, Santa Cruz i. Pair were collected. In third canyon, both adults and some roving young of the year were seen. Jays were generally distributed in this area. Sept. 7 A first-year bird, which proved to be a female, was collected at the Stanton Ranch Rdgtrs. It had been calling kra-kra-kra in the manner typical of unlocated, lone first-year birds. One of these series of kra notes was ended with a frog note, ki-dr-s-r-r. At this time the jay was sitting upon a dead tree, casually when not calling, pecking at branches, or just perched quietly. Sept. 9 A lone jay found at a spot about 2 mi SW camp in the main canyon so the female ga pair noted earlier at the same spot on several occasions. The male was taken on the 7th. Throughout a period of about 45 minutes this morning when I was either watching her or was nearby, she did not call. Once two jays, one of them a bird of the year, the other probably also, moved through the area, but she did not respond to them in anyway. (Sex here is judged solely on the basis of relative size, the difference in insularis being at once evident when a pair of adults are seen together) The individual just dis- cussed is apparently remaining on a home territory in spite of the loss its mate (as noted in ocleptics). That it does not call as these lone birds some- times do may be in part due to the fact that this individuals, as all taken thus far, is in a late