108 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



A regular migration westward occurs near the coast late in 

 October, as has often been witnessed by L. B. B. and many others. 



Roost. In the early eighties there was a larger winter roost 

 in a pine grove in Hamden, containing probably 10,000 birds on 

 the night of Feb. 22, 1882 (L. B. B.). 



Nest. Large nest of sticks, dry weeds, etc., often lined with 

 grapevine bark, usually close to the trunk of a chestnut or conifer, 

 or in the top of a poplar, birch, or other tree; 12 to 80 feet from 



the ground. 



Eggs. 4-7, commonly 4 or 5 ; middle of April. 



Nesting dates. Earliest record. April 10, 1882, three eggs 

 (L. B. B.). Latest record. June 12, 1892, four eggs (J. C. 



A. M.). 



Unusual eggs. Six pinkish eggs were found in a nest near 

 New Haven, May 8, 1884 (two in coll. of L. B. B.) ; light blue, 

 almost unspotted eggs also occur in nests in which the other eggs 

 are normal; a single egg in a set of six found measuring only 

 1.20 by .87 inch, May 18, 1893, Stratford (J. C. A. M.) ; a set 

 of four pinkish eggs is in the Wood collection at the Morgan 

 Memorial, Hartford, taken at South Windsor (J. H. S.). 



A set of seven eggs was collected in the spring of 1893 near 

 New Haven (H. W. F.). 



L. B. B. records a Crow found in New Haven, Sept. 1, 1906, 

 with a peculiar hoarse voice, which upon examination was learned 

 to be due to a profuse purulent rhinitis. 



A cinnamon colored Crow is recorded from Groton, Aug. 20, 



1879. 1 



Corvus ossifragus Wilson. Fish Crow. 



A rather rare resident near the coast, and extending some- 

 distance up the larger rivers. 



Distribution. Small colonies and isolated nests have been 

 found near the shore of the Sound at Woodmont, Milford, and 

 Stratford (J. C. A. M.) ; at Niantic (Hill) ; New Haven (L. B. 

 B. and C. C. T.) ; Fairfield and vicinity (Eames) ; 2 various points 

 in Fairfield County (Beers) ; along the Housatonic Valley, as 

 far north as Gaylordsville (Eames) ; along the Connecticut River 



i(9. and O., vi. 7, p. 55. 

 *Auk, x, 1, p. 89. 



