DCHP-3

grease bird

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— B.C.

a gray, crestless jay, Perisoreus canadensis.

Quotations

1891
This bird 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's Bay bird or grease bird, and far away to the East the moose bird, caribou bird, Rupert's bird, and camp robber.