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• The familiar name of a species of jay common in North America. It is the Garrulus canadensis.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

• hwis'ki-jak, n. the gray or Canada jay.--Also WHIS'KY-JOHN. [Amer. Ind. wiss-ka-tjan.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson