whisky-jacks

There'll be heaps uh fun in the Cypress Hills country when they get t 'runnin' the whisky-jacks out.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

He had seen a pair of whisky-jacks storing food in the butt of the tree, two or three summers before, and now his fingers groped for the hole.

The Honor of the Big Snows James Oliver Curwood 1903

A couple of drab-colored whisky-jacks, with bold mien and fearless bright eyes, hopped and fluttered round, picking up the scraps, and uttering an extraordinary variety of notes, mostly discordant; so tame were they that one of them lit on my outstretched arm as I half dozed, basking in the sunshine.

Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Theodore Roosevelt 1888

Not a bird was to be seen, except a few crows and whisky-jacks, which chattered among the branches of the trees; and Nature appeared as if undecided whether or not she should take another nap, ere she bedecked herself in the garments of spring.

Hudson Bay 1859

The same day I observed that when the men were ashore the whisky-jacks used to eat out of the pemmican bags left in the boats; so I lay down close to one, under cover of a buffalo-skin, and in three minutes had made prisoner of another of these little inhabitants of the forest.

Hudson Bay 1859

The most curious, and at the same time the most impudent, among the latter were the whisky-jacks.

Hudson Bay 1859

They're also called whisky-jacks, another Canadian hook.

Toronto Sun 2009