Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio. — " In Ohio the Crow is the terror of the 

 corn field, and has been hunted until there is no getting near him. It is 

 not strange if his nesting habits should conform to his general habit of 

 watchfulness. Nests are often one hundred feet up in some such tree as 

 shellbark hickory. I have never found a nest that could be reached with- 

 out irons. In Iowa, the Crow is not an enemy to agriculture, and so is 

 not hunted to any considerable extent, but he is nevertheless wary and 

 not easily taken. Flocks are usually composed of less than ten individu- 

 als, but I have seen hundreds of Crows gathered together seemingly for 

 some special purpose. There is always a prodigious cawing and much 

 changing of position among the individuals at such a time ; but when the 

 flock rises, it disperses in all directions and apparantly never comes to- 

 gether again, unless at some other rendezvous. It may be simply a co- 

 incidence, but the flocks that have come my way have appeared about 

 noon on an early Spring day. For so large a bird, its nest is re- 

 markably near the ground. I have found many not over ten feet up in a 

 thorn bush or scrubby oak." 



Arthur H. Norton, Westbrook, Me. — " My observations on the nesting 

 habits of the Crow have been made from Rockland to Portland, Maine, 

 in several localities, but no where more than ten miles from the coast. 

 Near Rockland, especially on the small islands of West Penobscot bay, 

 and also the islands of a portion of Casco bay ; the most constant feat- 

 ures of the landscape are the dwarfed-spruce woods; but as we retire from 

 the tide mark, on the mainland, we find a diversity of pine, oak, beech, 

 etc., affording the bird a choice of nesting places. The nests that have 

 come under my observation have invariably been placed in species of 

 evergreen trees. The Crows have a habit which seems to be constant, 

 when their nest is nearly completed, of calling in the low, imperfect voice 

 of their young, as we hear them in July. By this means, I have located 

 most of the nests that I have examined." [Another observer from the 

 same state makes note of this. Can it be a peculiarity of the Maine bird 

 alone ?— F. L. B.] " While common throughout the belt, it does not .seem 

 to breed abundantly in any portion of it. Each woodlet or wooded island 

 may be the breeding station of from one to five pairs. Metanic Island, 

 in Penobscot bay, annually supports about five pairs. This number 

 may be stimulated by the de.sire to pilfer the Night Herons {. Vvc/ /(();■((. v 

 nyctfco/'ax H(VTins), which also breeds here in large numbers. On 

 Crow Island in the same vicinity, the densely foliaged white spruce 

 {P/cca alba) is the chief form of vegetation, and in these trees the birds 

 formerly nested, building very low (about ten feet from the ground). The 

 Island is uninhabited and seldom visited by man. In 1885, the Raven 



