. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . 84a. Perisoreus canadensis capitalis Jay. Rocky Moun- Adults. — Top of head white shading to dark gray on back of neck; restof upper parts light slategray ; tail tipped with white ;throat whitish ; rest of underparts brownish gray. Young :top of head dull white, tingedwith grayish brown. , wing ,tail , bill . Distribution. — From Brit-ish America south to Arizonaand New Mexico in theRocky Mountain regions.
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . 84a. Perisoreus canadensis capitalis Jay. Rocky Moun- Adults. — Top of head white shading to dark gray on back of neck; restof upper parts light slategray ; tail tipped with white ;throat whitish ; rest of underparts brownish gray. Young :top of head dull white, tingedwith grayish brown. , wing ,tail , bill . Distribution. — From Brit-ish America south to Arizonaand New Mexico in theRocky Mountain regions. Nest. — As described byDr. Brewer, of pine twigsholding a compactly woveninner nest of stems, plant ^^^- ^^^• fibers, feathers, bark, and down, placed on the horizontal branch of apine 40 feet from the ground, containing 3 eggs, grayish white blotchedwith purplish brown, in two, only around the larger end, in one, over theentire egg. Food. — Meat, insects, acorns, and whatever offers. The Rocky Mountain jay, like the other species of the Perisoreusgenus, is notoriously a camp bird. As it lives all the year in the deep. 278 CROWS, JAYS, MAGPIES, ETC. coniferous forests where it is rarely shot at, it seems to regard the fewcampers who come to its preserves as fellow foresters who shouldnaturally share their living with it. The jays have been known tocarry these reprehensible socialistic sentiments so far as to fly downon the carcass of a deer which a man was skinning. At such a timeMr. Anthony has had them light on his head and back, uttering alow, plaintive cry. In the Yellowstone Kational Park, where no shoot-ing is allowed, a band of the big flufl:y birds came trooping into camp to breakfast with him every morning. Once theycame before the camp was awake and flew around calling and scold-ing as if angry that the people were not up. One bird droppedsoftly down on the blankets of one of the party and, while the manheld his breath and looked at it out of one
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