A FRIEND OF THE MOOSE-HUNTER 327 
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. 
Tue Canapa Jay, Wuiskey-Jack, or Mooss-Birp,! is 
by reason of its personal oddities and assertiveness perhaps 
Photographed by 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 Laurentian wilderness, knows well this auda- 
cious camp-follower, and remembers him with interest, if not 
even friendship. He has no real song, and his cries are rather 
1 Per-i-so're-us canadensis. Length, 12 inches. 
