134 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



CORVIDAE. 



N. H. — Common migrant and summer resident; less common 

 in winter south of the White ISIts. 



Vt. — Common migrant and resident. Eggs, May 11. 

 Mass. — Common migrant and resident. Eggs, April 2S-June 15. 

 R. I. — Common resident. Eggs, May 2-22. 

 Conn. — Common resident. Eggs, INIay 5-June 13. 



253. Perisoreus canadensis (Linne) Bonaparte. 



Canada jay; Camp robber; Caribou-bird; Gray jay; Grease- 

 bird; Meat-bird; Meat hawk; Moose -bird; Venison hawk; 

 Whiskey- Jack; Whiskey- John; Wiss-ka-chon (Indian). 



Corws canadensis Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 12, 1766, vol. 1, p. 158, 

 "Can.vda." 



Garrulus canadensis (Linne). Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1842, 

 vol. 4, p. 121, pi. 234. Egg, Bendire, 1895, vol. 2, pi. 3, figs. 18, 19. 



Fir and spruce forests; nests in trees. 



Me. — Uncommon resident in northern part, south to Umbagog; 

 elsewhere casual. Eggs, ]Mar. 16-28. 



N. H. — Uncommon resident above 3000 ft. on Sandwich Range 

 north; elsewhere casual. 



Vt. — Uncommon resident in northern part and on high peaks 

 (Mt. Mansfield); elsewhere casual (Somerset, Aug. 5, 1896). 



Mass. — Accidental visitor: Lexington {nee Arlington Heights), 

 Oct. 16, 1889; Xewtonville, early summer, 1875; Salem, Oct. 25, 

 1878. 



254. CoRvus CORAX PRINCIPALIS Ridgway. 



Northern raven. 



Ridgw., Manual Xo. Amer. birds, 1887, p. 361. "Northern 

 North America, from Greenland to Alaska, south to British 

 Columbia, Canada, New Brunswick." 



