A FRIEND OF THE MOOSE-HUNTER 



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tains of the West, from Alaska to Mexico, and straggles east- 

 ward to the eastern edge of the Great Plains. It is often 

 called Clarke's Crow. 



The Canada Jay, Whiskey-Jack, or Moose-Bird, 1 is 

 by reason of its personal oddities and assertiveness perhaps 



Photographed l>y E. R. Warren. 



CLARKE'S NUT-CRACKER. 



the most conspicuous and widely known of all the perching 

 birds of the great coniferous forests of Canada. Every man 

 who has trailed moose or caribou, or for any reason has 

 camped in the Laurent ian wilderness, knows well this auda- 

 cious camp-follower, and remembers him with interest, if not 

 even friendship. Tie has no real song, and his cries are rather 



1 Per-i-so'rc-un canadensis. Length, 12 inches. 



