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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a gray, crestless jay, Perisoreus canadensis.
See: Canada jay
Quotations
1892
This bird [Canada jay] is common throughout the wilder parts of Canada, and has acquired many names in different places; in the mountains of British Columbia he is the Hudson Bay bird or grease bird, and far away in the East the moose bird, caribou bird, Rupert's bird, and camp robber.