L, Umbagog 
Perisoreus canadensis 
1890 
I set Will Sargent to following our Jays to-day while my cook 
Oct. . 85 , put out a lot of large pieces of biscuit for them. Sargent traced 
them about a half a mile to a dense white spruce swamp. Here he 
found two of their store houses. One in the top of a pine stub 
contained 
about a pint of biscuit & brown bread. The other in a larch stub 
in three peck holes of either Colaptes or Hylotornus , the three holes 
all crammed full of bread packed tightly , in all nearly a quart. 
He saw the Javs carry the bread to both stores and they saw that he 
saw them. In fact they caught him in the act of climbing the trees. 
This about noon. He went back to the stubs & found them in the act 
of removing the last pieces of bread from both. After they had 
finished this task they came to camp again & worked till dark. He 
says they alighted regularly on the tops of the tallest trees to 
reconnoitre before visiting their hoards in the swamp. 
Will Sargent again followed our Canada Jays this afternoon, 
and found two more of their store houses, each containing a pint 
or more of biscuit, beans etc. One was in the angle at the point 
where a leaning stub touched another, the other within a large 
scale of semi-detached berk on a dead hemlock. He watched both 
places for sometime. Each seemed to be visited by one bird only. 
The one that used the scale of bark as a store house, packed each 
piece of bread with some care first fitting it in place and then 
tamping it in solidly with its bill, the other merely dropped its 
loads into the crevice 
