Nature 414, 443–446 (2001).
The exact number of species of American jays is a matter of debate1. This is particularly evident within the scrub-jay lineage of Aphelocoma2. Traditionally, A. coerulescens included the Florida scrub-jay and the western scrub-jay, among others. It has recently been brought to our attention that the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union now use A. coerulescens to refer exclusively to the Florida scrub-jay and A. californica to refer to the western scrub-jay2. The birds used in the Emery & Clayton3 and Clayton & Dickinson4 studies were western scrub-jays: A. californica, not A. coerulescens. We therefore wish to correct the oversight in this paper and our other papers using these birds, and apologize for any confusion that has arisen. We thank R. Curry, T. Langen and G. Woolfenden for alerting us to the change in nomenclature.
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Emery, N., Clayton, N. Erratum: Effects of experience and social context on prospective caching strategies by scrub jays. Nature 416, 349 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/416349a
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