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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