ANNUAL MIGRATIONS 135 



adrift under less favorable weather conditions. 

 This time 15 remained. 



Of the 14 controls, 6 remained, 8 departed. 

 Those that stayed were again turned out together 

 with the experimental on the 24th, when none of 

 them left. 



The returns — apart from those that remained at 

 home — were distributed as follows. Of the 54 

 experimental departures, 28 were ultimately re- 

 ported killed, 12 locally (within 10 miles of Edmon- 

 ton). Eight were returned from the north and 

 northwest, (the farthest, 2, at Whitecourt, 100 miles 

 in a direct line northwest of Edmonton). Eight 

 were reported from the south and southeast. South 

 Dakota being the remotest point. The remaining 

 26 are unaccounted for. 



Of the 8 control departures, 2 were locally killed, 

 4 to the southeast (the farthest at about 200 miles) , 

 none north or northwest while 2 are unaccounted for. 



Scores of sight records of crows were sent in from 

 various parts of the Province, nearly all of single 

 birds or of twos and occasionally threes, but from 

 various points along the south shores of Lesser Slave 

 Lake and beyond to Peace River Town, 300 miles 

 northwest of Edmonton, persistent reports of groups 

 of crows (up to 15 together) were received till about 

 the beginning of January. A number of attempts 



