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L. Umbagog.
1890.
Oct. 3.
Perisoreus canadensis. copy
A pair of these Jays visited my camp yesterday and the day before. This morning they came again. Thus far they have acted rather shy or rather suspicious merely passing through the trees peeping down at us curiously. I tried "screeping" them but they paid no attention to the sound. One of them this morning screamed repeatedly exactly like a Blue Jay. At first all three of my men insisted that there must be a Blue Jay in the tree but the next moment we all saw the bird repeat the cry four times in quick succession. None of my men had ever known a Canada Jay to make this cry before.
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