320 CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



nently protected by law. There are times, however, when 

 this bird becomes a nuisance to domestic animals. 



In the higher altitudes, the Nutcracker and Canada 

 Jay are the big-game hunter's most intimate feathered 

 friends. In the wildest basins and on the steepest moun- 

 tain-sides, you will see them hang upon the heaven-point- 

 ing tips of the last dead pines and spruces, and hear their 

 weird, squawking cries. It is fitting that the birds of the 

 summits should be widely different from those of the 

 plains, and that the sound of falling slide-rock, and the 

 whistle of the wind through the pine-tops should forever 

 be associated in the hunter's mind with the queer " Kee- 

 wock " of Clark's Nutcracker. 



