as gone the hunter tied up the mouth of the bag.

In a few moments the Jay was back for more. When he saw he could not get
into the bag, he just picked it up and carried it off. The joke was on
the hunter after all. Look at him. Doesn't he look bold enough to do
such a trick?

Look back at your February number of "BIRDS" and see if he is anything
like the Blue Jay.

He is not afraid of the snow and often times he and his mate have built
their nest, and the eggs are laid while there is still snow on the
ground. Do you know of any other birds who build their nests so early?

There is one thing about this bird which we all admire--he is always
busy, never idle; so we will forgive him for his funny tricks.

[Illustration: From col. Chi. Acad. Sciences.
CANADA JAY.]

THE CANADA JAY.

Many will recognize the Canada Jay by his local names, of which he has a
large assortment. He is called by the guides and lumbermen of the
Adirondack wilderness, "Whisky Jack" or "Whisky John," a corruption of
the Indian name, "Wis-ka-tjon," "Moose Bird," "Camp Robber," "Hudson Bay
Bird," "Caribou Bird," "Meat Bird," "Grease Bird," and "Venison Heron."
To each of these names his characteristics have well entitled him.

The Canada Jay is found only in the more northern parts of the United
States, where it is a resident and breeds. In northern Maine and
northern Minnesota it is most common; and it ranges northward through
the Dominion of Canada to the western shores of Hudson Bay, and to the
limit of timber within the Arctic Circle east of the Rocky Mountains.

Mr. Manly Hardy, in a special bulletin of the Smithsonian Institution,
says, "They are the boldest of our birds, except the Chickadee, and in
cool impudence far surpass all others. They will enter the tents, and
often alight on the bow of a canoe, where the paddle at every stroke
comes within eighteen inches of them. I know nothing which can be eaten
that they will not take, and I had one steal all my candles, pulling
them out endwise, one by one, from a piece of birch bark in which they
were rolled, and another pecked a large hole in a keg of castile soap. A
duck which I had picked and laid down for a few minutes had the entire
breast eaten out by one or more of these birds. I have seen one alight
in the middle of my canoe and peck away at the carcass of a beaver I
had skinned. They often spoil deer saddles by pecking into them near the
kidneys. They do g