Perisoreus canadensis. my tin bird after a long wait he was all that of my friends they feed readily and have known to learn Yankes they eat sweet potatoes killing on a hill and eating corn which I found about the country & long black beans, sweet potato black beans, sweet potato water the first from this city. They are most by coppers on often set coppers in trees, what I have seen. They haunt every part of the wooded district mostly after green bugs which they eat and destroy countless hordes with these insects & feed on syruped nuts, fruit and an apple. The meat is very good The skin (flesh) and fat all they eat found. I put the flesh which the Indians to eat them. When they are feeding, I generally put a stick of wood in their cage