THE BIRD BOOK 
482a. Couch’s Jay. Aphelocoma sieberi 
couchi. 
Range. — Eastern Mexico, north to western 
Texas. 
483. Green Jay. Xanthoura luxuosa 
glaucescens. 
Range. — Northeastern Mexico and the Lower 
Rio Grande Valley in Texas. 
This handsome species has a bright blue 
crown and patches under 
the eyes, the rest of the 
upper parts being green- 
ish; throat and sides of 
head black, underparts 
greenish white. This gaudy 
and noisy bird has all the 
habits common to other 
Jays including that of rob- 
bing birds’ nests. They Grayish buff 
build generally in tangled 
thickets or low bushes, placing their nests at a low elevation and making them 
of twigs, weeds, moss, etc., lined with fine rootlets. Their four or five eggs, 
which are laid during April or May, are grayish buff in color, spotted with 
various shades of brown and lavender gray. Size 1.20 x .85. 
484. Canada Jay. Perisoreus canadensis canadensis. 
Range. — Southeastern British Provinces and the adjacent portions of the 
United States; west to the Rockies. 
This is the bird that is well known to hunters of “big game” by various 
names such as “Whiskey Jack,” “Moose Bird,” “Camp Robber,” etc. Dur- 
ing the winter months, owing to the scarcity of food, their thieving 
propensities are greatly enhanced and they 
remove everything from the camps, which looks 
as though it might be edible. Birds of this 
genus are smoky gray 
on the back and lighter 
below, shading to white 
on the throat; the fore- 
head and part of the 
crown is white and the 
nape blackish. Their 
nests are placed at low 
. elevations in bushes or 
Grayish fi r t rees> an( j are usua i- 
ly very different from any of the preceding Jays’ 
nests. They are nearly as high as wide, and 
are made of small twigs, moss, catkins, weeds 
and feathers making a soft spongy mass which 
is placed in an upright crotch. The eggs are 
a yellowish gray color spotted and blotched with 
brown and grayish. Size 1.15 x .80. Data. — In- 
nisfail, Alberta, March 12, 1903. Nest a beauti- 
ful structure of twigs, moss and feathers in a 
willow bush, 6 feet from the ground. The ther- 
mometer registered 32 below zero the day the 
eggs were taken. Collector, W. Blackwood. 
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Canada Jay 
