134 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



CORVIDAE. 



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

 in winter south of the White Alts. 



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

 Mass. — Common migrant and resident. Eggs, April 28- June 15. 

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

 Coxx. — Common resident. Eggs, May 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). 



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

 "Caxada." 



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; Newtonville, early summer, 1875; Salem, Oct. 25. 

 1878. 



254. Corvus corax prixcipalis Ridgway. 



Northern raven. 



Ridgw., Manual No. Amer. birds, 1887, p. 361. "Xortherx 

 North America, from Greexlaxd to Alaska, south to British 

 Columbia, Caxada, Xew Bruxswick." 



