Check-list of the Birds of Kansas

by Harrison Bruce Tordoff

Subspecies in Kansas: H. r. erythrogaster Boddaert.

* Petrochelidon pyrrhonota. Cliff Swallow. Common transient and locally common summer resident throughout state.

Subspecies in Kansas: P. p. pyrrhonota (Vieillot).

Progne subis. Purple Martin. Common transient and summer resident in east to uncommon or rare in west.

Subspecies in Kansas: P. s. subis (Linnaeus).

* Cyanocitta cristata. Blue Jay. Common transient and resident throughout state; less common in northern and western sections in winter.

Subspecies in Kansas: C. c. bromia Oberholser in east, C. c. cyanotephra Sutton in west, intergrading through central Kansas.

[Cyanocitta stelleri. Steller Jay. Several sight records from southwestern Kansas. Placed in Hypothetical List in absence of a specimen.]

Aphelocoma coerulescens. Scrub Jay. Irregular winter resident in southwestern Kansas. Five specimens (KU 20812-5, 21213), 12 miles northeast of Elkhart, Morton County, November 8, 10, 14, 1934, W. S. Long and Fred Hastie. Two seen in Finney County, January 15, 1955, by Marvin D. Schwilling.