Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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Perisoreus canadensis. Upton, Maine Perisoreus canadensis, 1884 Oct. 25, A wounded one, slightly wing-tipped, was brought in to me. It was very tame and not very cross although it bit slightly when seized. It would eat from my hand at the first. I turned it loose in my room and it soon made itself at home hopping about picking at the carpet and seizing every tinny fly it could find. It hopped like a green Jay. It seems to prefer raw meat to anything. Mr. Plummer tells me that they are often picked up in the woods after a protracted storm in winter I taken to the lumber camps when