NOTES 



Educational Leaflet No. 82. (National Association of Audubon 

 Societies.) 



At the time this story goes to press, our national emblem is 

 threatened with extermination. The following references indicate 

 the situation in 1920: — 



Conservationist, The, vol. 3, pages 60-61; ''Our National Em- 

 blem." 



National Geographic Magazine, vol. 38, page 466. 



Natural History, vol. 20, pages 259 and 334; ''The Dead Eagles 

 of Alaska now number 8356." 



Science, vol. 50, pages 81-84; "Zoological Aims and Opportun- 

 ities," by Willard G. Van Name. 



CORBIE 



Corvu^ hrachyrhynchos, the Crow. 



The Bird (Beebe), pages 153, 158, 172, 200-01, 209. "When the 

 brain of a bird is compared with that of a mammal, there is seen 

 to be a conspicuous difference, since the outer surface is perfectly 

 smooth in birds, but is wound about in convolutions in the higher 

 four-footed animals. This latter condition is said to indicate a 

 greater degree of intelhgence; but when we look at the brain of a 

 young musk-ox or walrus, and find convolutions as deep as those 

 of a five-year-old child, and when we compare the wonderfully 

 varied life of birds, and realize what resource and intelligence they 

 frequently display in adapting themselves to new or untried con- 

 ditions, a smooth brain does not seem such an inferior organ as is 

 often inferred by writers on the subject. I would willingly match 

 a crow against a walrus any day in a test of intelligent beha- 

 vior. ... A crow . . . though with horny, shapeless lips, nose, 

 and mouth, looks at us through eyes so expressive, so human, that 

 no wonder man's love has gone out to feathered creatm-es through- 

 out all his life on the earth." 



Handbook of Nature- Study (Comstock), pages 129-32. 



Ajnerican Birds (Finley), pages 69-77; "Jack Crow." 



The Crow and its Relation to Man (Kalmbach). 



Outdoor Studies (Needham), pages 47-53; "Not so Black as he 

 is Painted." 



Tales from Birdland (Pearson), pages 128-52; "Jim Crow of 

 Cow Heaven." 



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