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itisd. Queen Charlotte Jay. 



Cyanocitta stelleri carlotta Osgood. 1901. 



Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. 



Type from Cumshewa Inlet, Moresby Island, Queen Charlotte 

 Islands, B.C., taken June 17th, igoo, by W. H. Osgood and E. 

 Heller. 



CLXX. PERISOREUS Bonaparte. 1831. 



484, Canada Jay. 



Perisoreus canadensis (Linn.) Bonap. 1838. 



Plentiful in the interior of the southern and western portions 

 Labrador ; breeds and is resident wherever found. (Packard^ 

 Common all the way from Missanabie, on the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway, down the Moose River, and through Ungava to Ungava 

 Bay in 1896. {Spreadborougk.) Common on Newfoundland and 

 remains throughout the year. {Reeks.) Abundant and very 

 tame, Humber River, Newfoundland, 1899. {Louis H. Porter^ 

 An abundant resident in Nova Scotia. {Downs.) A common 

 winter resident in Cumberland Co., N.S.; very fearless, coming 

 about the buildings for scraps ; I saw birds with grass in their 

 bills late in March; they evidently nest in April. {C.H. Morrell.) 

 A few observed at Baddeck, Cape Breton Island. {F. H. Allen) 

 A common resident at Sydney, Cape Breton Island, but could 

 find no one who had ever seen a nest. {C. R. Harte.) Rather 

 uncommon in King's Co., N.S., but present throughout the year. 

 {H. Tufts.) 



Abundant resident in New Brunswick. {Chamberlain.) Not 

 uncommon in the Restigouche valley, N.B. {Brittain & Cox) 

 Abundant on Anticosti where it is a resident. {Brewster) Remains 

 all the year at Lake Mistassini in northern Quebec. (/. M. 

 Macoun) Taken at Beauport ; a common resident in Quebec. 

 {Dionne) Seen only in the woods in summer ; approaches the 

 settlements in Grenville, Que., in October. {D'Urban) Fort 

 Churchill, Hudson Bay. {Clarke) Transient visitant ; scarce in 

 the Montreal district ; this jay visits us from the north in the 

 autumn, but I have met with them in the spring of the year. 

 {Wintle) Permanent resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B.; 

 but becoming scarce. Plave never found a nest of this species, 



