cinereous crow

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a gray, crestless jay, Perisoreus canadensis.

Quotations

1795

The Cinereous Crow, or . . . Whisky-Jack . . . is in reality so small, seldom as to weigh three ounces.

1820

The summer birds by this time had entirely deserted us, leaving for our winter companions, the raven, cinereous crow, ptarmigan, and snow-bird.

1853

On looking up, they beheld . . . the "cinereous crow" . . . or, as it is better known, the "whiskey jack."