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Home Xatuke-Stldy Course. 



Topics for essays relating to the crow: 



(i). Evidences of crow intelligence. 



(2). Stories of tame crows. 



(3). What the crow might say in defense of himself to the farmer 

 who wished to shoot him. 



(4). The best methods of preventing the crow from stealing planted 

 corn. 



Crow's Nest — Note its careful construction 

 This nest was photographed at a height of forty feet 



Facts for the Teacher. — The crow's nest is usually very large; it is made of sticks, 

 of grape vines and bark, sod, horse-hair, moss and grasses. It is placed in trees 

 or in tall bushes rarely less than twenty feet from the ground. The eggs are pale 

 bluish-green or nearly white with brownish markings. The young crows hatch in 

 April or May. Both parents are devoted to the care of the young, which remain 

 with their parents during most of the summer. I have often seen a mother crow 

 feeding her young ones which were following her with obstreperous caws when 

 they were as large as she. While the note of the crow is harsh when close at hand 

 it has a musical quality in the distance. Mr. Mathews says : " The crow when he 

 sings is nothing short of a clown ; he ruffles his feathers, stretches his neck, like 



