THE MEXICAN RAVEN. 



grunting' kocrr-kocrr. and again 1)\' a clucking, a sort of self-satisfied sound, 

 difficult til reproduce on paper: in fact the)- utter a variety of notes when at 

 ease and undisturbed, among others a metallic sounding kliuik, which seems 

 to cost them consideral)le effHrt. In places where they are not molested they 

 become reasonably tame, and I have seen Ravens occasionally alight in my 

 yard and feed among the chickens, a thing I have never seen Crows do. * * * 

 "Out of some twenty nests examined only one was placed in a tree. It 

 was in a good sized dead willow, twenty feet frnm the ground, on an island 



XKSTIXG HAUNT OF THE MEXIC.^N R.-WEN. 



in Sylvies Ri\er, Oregon, and easily reached ; it contained five fresh eggs on 

 April 13, 1875. The other nests were placed on clififs, and, with few excep- 

 tions, in positions where they were comparatively secure. Usually the nest 

 could not be seen from abo\'e, and it generally took several assistants and 

 strong ropes to get near them, and even then it was frequentlv impossible to 

 reach the eggs without the aid of a long pole with a dipper attached to the end. 

 A favorite site was a clilY with a southern exposure, where the nest was com- 

 pletely covered from above by a projecting rock." 



Having once chosen a nesting site, the Ravens e\'ince a great attachment 

 for that particular locality; and, rather than desert it, will avoid notice by 

 deferring the nesting season, or by visiting the eggs or young only at night. 



We have no' records of the taking of Ravai's eggs in Washington, liut it 



