A New Name for the Canada Jay of the Rainbow Mountains of British Columbia
A New Name for the Canada Jay of the Rainbow Mountains of British Columbia.- Stresemann (Ibis, 91, 1949:252) has recently shown that the name Corvus pacificus Gmelin (Syst. Nat., ed. 13, l(l), 1788:372, no. 32) is applicable to the race of Canada Jay of western Alaska for long known as Perisoreus canadetisis fumifvons Ridgway. With the early name pacificus thus coming into use in the genus Perisoreus, it is necessary to supply a new name for Perisoreus cunudensis pacificus Miller (Condor, 45, 1943:117), the race of Canada Jay inhabiting the Rainbow Mountain area of coastal British Columbia. I therefore propose as a substitute: Perisoveus canadensis arcus, nom. nov.- ALDEN H. MILLF,R, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California, December 23, 1949.
