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jack-jay
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a gray, crestless jay, Perisoreus canadensis.
See: Canada jay
Quotations
1946
The Canada Jay has more names than a debt collector. It is the Whisky Jack of the early settlers, the Moose-bird and Meat-bird of the hunters, the Jay-dee of the back-bush youngsters, the Camp-robber of the resentful picknicker, while some confuse the issue even more by calling it the Jack-jay.