It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, the others being the Siberian Jay, P. infaustus, found from Norway to eastern Russia and the Gray Jay, P. canadensis, restricted to the boreal forest and western montane regions of North America.
It was sometimes Anglicized as Whiskey Jack, which became an alternate name for the Gray Jay.
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It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, the others being the Sichuan Jay, P. internigrans, restricted to the mountains of eastern Tibet and northwestern Sichuan, and the Gray Jay, P. canadensis, restricted to the boreal forest and western montane regions of North America.