Hoffmeister 1942 California Jay May 16 Walker Cr., 4 mi. SW Olancha, 5200 ft., Inyo Co., Calif. Abundant here in the oaks and willows along the creek and occasionally even out in the Artemisia flat. One bird flew in to the willow-oak thicket around camp and I collected it. May 24 6 mi. W & 1 mi. S Lone Pine, 6600 ft., Inyo Co., Calif. At this locality, the paxons come down the eastern slopes of the Sierras and meet the Artemisia flats. In hunting along this fringe of paxons today, I saw 1 and heard another. They are exceedingly wary and difficult to approach. They feed, at least in part, out on the Artemisia flat and fly up into the paxons where they now have nests. May 25 Chased an adult from the edge of the Artemisia up in the pixons but was unable to collect it. Petelka shot a bird moving up about this time and it may have been the same bird. May 29 5 mi. W & 1/4 mi. S Independence, 6000 ft., Inyo Co., Calif. A ? perched in the top of one of the deciduous oaks near camp. This bird was apparently moving across the canyon for I have heard or seen no other jays down in the "meadow". June 4 2 mi. N & 4 mi. W Independence, 5200 ft., Inyo Co., Calif. At this locality along the South Fork of Oak, California Jays were relatively abundant in a limited area in the bottom of the canyon where there was thickets of willows. There also were oaks (non-deciduous) here, but the jays I shot were in, and apparently nesting somewhere near the willow thicket.