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88. Perisoreus canadensis. 
The well-known “ Whisky Jack" is a constant companion of 
the voyageurs on their long and wearisome journeys throughout 
the fur-countries. Everywhere, be it winter or summer, at the 
camping-place of the sledge-drivers or the more animated mid¬ 
day halt of a brigade of boats or canoes, the Canada Jay is sure 
to give his company uninvited, and feed on any stray bits of 
“ pemmican" or dried-meat he can pick up. Every one who 
has read the narratives of arctic land-travel, or the more amusing- 
stories of fur-traders' life, will have heard of the devices put in 
practice to entrap this inquisitive bird. A very common method, 
and one which has the advantage of not requiring mechanical 
aid, is for a man to lie down in the bow of a boat, when made 
fast to the shore, and covering his head and shoulders with a 
capot, keep quite quiet, while he holds a piece of pemmican in the 
hollow of his hand; presently Mr. Jay alights on the stern of 
the boat, hops closer and closer, and at last, just as he is in the 
act of securing the pemmican, the horny hand of the voyageur 
suddenly closes, and a plaintive squeak announces that his in¬ 
quisitiveness has led the “ Whisky Jack 39 into a man-trap. My 
specimen ( f Ibis/ vol. iv. p. 8) was obtained at Fort Carlton ; Mr. 
Murray has received one from the coast of Hudson's Bay, while it 
is recorded in the f Fauna Bor .-Am.' and by Mr. Ross up to the 
Arctic Circle. The bird figured and described by Swainson as 
Garrulus brachyrhynchus is generally supposed to be the young 
of the Canada Jay. 
[To be continued.] 
VII.— Additions and Corrections to the Ornithology of Northern 
China. By Robert Swinhoe, Corr. Mem. Zool. Soc. 
(Plate III.) 
To commence with the birds of Talien Bay (for notes on which 
see ‘Ibis/ vol. iii. p. 251). 
10. Emberiza rustica, Pall., should be E. cioides f Temm. 
Faun. Japon; the same as E. ciopsis, Bp. 
12. Alauda leautungensis, Swinhoe. 
This bird is closely allied to A. cristata , S. of Europe, but 
appears to me to be distinct. It belongs to Boie's subgenus 
