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White Mountains, but no evidence has ever been cited as a 

 basis for such a belief. I have had occasional reports of the 

 bird from this region, but none that I considered trustworthy. 

 154. Corvus americanus And. American Crow. 



A common summer resident throughout the Transition and 

 sub-Canadian regions ; it is abundant as a spring and fall mi- 

 grant, but as a winter resident it is rare in all but the southern 

 portions of the state. Among the White Mountains, crows nest 

 up to 3,000 feet or so, but are not to be found in the deeper 

 woods at a distance from open farm lands. Dr. A. P. Chad- 

 bourne records ('87, p. 104) two birds seen in July on the bare 

 rocks at 5,350 feet on Alt. Washington, whither they had evi- 

 dently flown from below. Late in the summer, they gather in 

 small flocks, to feed by day on the meadows and lowlands ; at 

 sunset they may often be seen flying toward the mountains at a 

 considerable height, to roost. These smaller flocks unite, by 

 September, to form larger, which migrate southward in late Sep- 

 tember or early October. A few birds winter with some regu- 

 larity as far north as the White Mountain valleys. At Inter- 

 vale, I saw a bird on Dec. 26, 1900, and farther up the valley, 

 at Jackson, they occasionally winter. They have been record- 

 ed by J. W. Nash ('88) as having wintered at North Conway. 

 To the north of the White Mountains, they are rarer in winter ; 

 Mr. R. H. Howe, Junior, ('99) has recorded seeing the bird at 

 Shelburne the last of December, 1897. In the Connecticut val- 

 ley, " E. C." ('86) states that crows passed the winter of 1886 

 at Hanover, "a rare incident." In the southern parts of the 

 state, they are sometimes common in winter, and in a journey 

 by train up the Merrimack valley on Feb. 10, 1900, occasional 

 birds were seen along the river, and at Manchester a flock of from 

 30 to 40 was observed from the car window feeding on a large 

 pile of refuse. About Webster, that same winter, Mr. C. F. 

 Goodhue had observed crows to be wintering in larger num- 

 bers than usual, for the season was comparatively mild. On 

 March 26, 1900, on the coast at Seabmok, during the entire fore- 

 noon, I observed Crows flying northward in small groups of from 

 3 to 30, at varying intervals apart. At least three or four hun- 



