The Birds of Wyoming. 



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480. Aphelocoma woodhouseii (Baird.). 

 Woodhouse's Jay. 



Resident; but the data is too limited to judge of its 

 ■abundance and distribution. But few collectors have found 

 this Jay in the state. Coues reports two specimens, but does 

 xiot give the exact location ; Aiken found them nesting near 

 Sherman. From the present data this bird has been found 

 •only in the southeastern corner of the state; but it should be 

 found to the westward and northward toward Montana. 



484 a. Perisoreus canadensis capitalis Ridgw. 

 Rocky Mountain Jay. 

 Resident and common in all of the pine forests of the state. 

 Usually this bird is called the "camp robber," a name which 

 he earnestly deserves. In traveling in the forest-clad moun- 

 tains one hardly halts for camp when a half dozen of these 

 noisy fellows will take up their abode in the near-by trees and 

 malie ready to feed upon the camp refuse, or possibly upon 



the camp supplies if 

 they are not prop- 

 e r 1 y cared for. 

 They are usually 

 quite tame and will 

 ordinarily hop to 

 within a few feet 

 of one while eating 

 and pick up and 

 carry away bits of 

 "bread or other edibles. When a party camps for several days 

 in a place they will, if not disturbed, come up and take a piece 

 of bread from one's hand. They are very fond of fresh meat. 

 Some years ago while deer hunting we had several carcasses 

 lianging in the trees near by and some quarters that had been 

 skinned. I noticed the birds flying away from the meat when- 

 ever I came into camp and upon examining the quarters that 



CAMP /^OeBEfi.'' 



