. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. CROWS AND JAYS 233 CLARKE'S NUTCRACKER Nucifraga Columbiana ( ll'Uson) A. (). L.'. Number 491 Other Names.— Clarke's Crow; Meat Hird ; Camp Robber. General Description.— Length. 12'.. inches. Body, gray; wings, black. Wings, long and pointed, and, when folded, reaching to the end of tail; tail, a little over one-half length of wing; bill, cylindrical. Color.— Xasal tufts, front portion of forehead, eye- lids, forward portion of cheek region, and chin, white, usually soiled or tinged with dirty yellowish; rest of head, neck, back, shoulders, and unde
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. CROWS AND JAYS 233 CLARKE'S NUTCRACKER Nucifraga Columbiana ( ll'Uson) A. (). L.'. Number 491 Other Names.— Clarke's Crow; Meat Hird ; Camp Robber. General Description.— Length. 12'.. inches. Body, gray; wings, black. Wings, long and pointed, and, when folded, reaching to the end of tail; tail, a little over one-half length of wing; bill, cylindrical. Color.— Xasal tufts, front portion of forehead, eye- lids, forward portion of cheek region, and chin, white, usually soiled or tinged with dirty yellowish; rest of head, neck, back, shoulders, and under parts (except chin and under tail-coverts), plain smoke-gray or drab- gray, the head somewhat paler than other portions; rump, darker gray than back, deepening into grayish- black on upper tail-coverts; under tail-coverts, pure white; wings and two middle tail-feathers, black, glossed with purplish-blue or violet, especially on wing-coverts and secondaries, the latter very broadly tipped with white; four outermost pairs of tail-feathers white, the fifth pair with outer web mostly white and inner web mostly black; iris, brown. Nest and Eggs.—Nest: Usually in pines on hor- izontal branches from 8 to 40 feet up; a large bulky affair; the base of coarse sticks, twigs of white sage, on which is built the true nest of dried grasses, plant- fiber, moss and fine strips of juniper bark, all deftly in- terwoven into a snug home. Eggs : 3 to 5, finely and minutely specked with brown and pale purple, uniformly marked or wreathed at large end. Distribution.— Coniferous forests of western North America, from high mountains of New Mexico. Ari- zona; and northern Lower California to northwestern .Maska; casual in southeastern South Dakota. Ne- braska, western Kansas, western Missouri, and Arkan- sas. The Clarke Crow or Nutcracker was first dis- covered by Captain William Clarke near the site of Salmon City in Idaho, August 22, 1805. While this bird is a Crow in actions, yet in dres
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