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skin from Roan Mountain they are in too poor condition to warrant 

 establishing a State record without supporting evidence. They ap- 

 pear intermediate. The wing measurements in two females are 126.6 

 and 127.3 mm. and in one male 128.7 mm., and in the Roan Mountain, 

 N. C, skin, a female, 128.4 mm. I am not certain, however, that the 

 wing is fully grown in any of these. 



CORVUS CORAX PRINCIPALIS Ridgway: Northern Raven 



Perrygo recorded this species in small numbers on Roan Moun- 

 tain, N. C, September 11 and 12, 1937, and observed one on 

 Snake Mountain, Watauga County, July 18, 1939. He was told that 

 up to fifteen years or so previous ravens had nested regularly on 

 Bluff Mountain north of Boone but had left this locality. 



CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS BRACHYRHYNCHOS Brehm: Eastern Crow 



As a migrant this northern race, marked by larger size, comes into 

 North Carolina, though its comparative abundance in relation to the 

 southern form remains to be ascertained. In a considerable series 

 in the National Museum there are two male hrachyrhynchos (wing 

 325, 312, culmen from base 55, 52 mm.), and one female (wing 310, 

 cuhnen from base 50 mm.) taken January 7, 1914, near Currituck 

 Sound. 



CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS PAULUS Howell: Southern Crow 



North Carolina is in the northern section of the range of this 

 rather poorly marked form, and from a small number of breeding 

 specimens the nesting birds that I have seen all appear best referred 

 to yaukis. In a pair from the edge of the Dismal Swamp 7 miles 

 west of South Mills the male has the wing 308' and the culmen from 

 base 51.6 mm., while in the female these measurements are 292 and 

 48.3 mm., respectively. A female from Wadesboro, May 26, meas- 

 ures 285 and 44.8 mm., and one from Statesville, October 4, has the 

 wing 280 and the culmen from base 49.1 mm. A female from Ei'gel- 

 hard, October 23, measures 299.5 and 51.8, and a male from Green- 

 ville 297 and 50.3 mm. A male taken at Asheville on May 3, 1932, 

 is definitely pauliis^ with the wing 28'0 and the culmen from base 

 47 mm. 



The only anomalous specimen in the breeding series is a male, 

 taken 8 miles southwest of Murphy, in which the wing is 316 and the 

 culmen from base 50.5 mm. This specimen is of uncertain status 

 but it is probably an intermediate specimen, as birds from the moun- 

 tains of northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia belong 

 with paulus. Further breeding specimens should be obtained in the 

 mountain area of western North Carolina. 



