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ground. 



Commonest of all the Cor'rina- of 

 this immediate locality is the Ameri- 

 can Raven, Con'its corax sinnatus. 

 In the lower parts of the county 

 where willow timber is abundant C. 

 aiiitrictiiiiis is "the whole thin^:, " but 

 back here in the hills wherever the 

 cliffs are suitable for nesiing sites this 

 species of Raven may be found, often 

 sinj^ly, usually in pairs, never more 

 than two one pair) on the same cliff. 

 I found but one nest this season that 

 contained anything. One day in the 

 latter part of May, about the 25th I 

 believe, I found this nest on the north 

 face of a triangular cliff. It held the 

 large number of six young, nearly 

 ready to fly. It was well built and 

 lined to a depth of apparently an inch 

 or more with soft black fibres and a 

 few feathers. The nest was scrupu- 

 lously clean, a condition I have found 

 to be true of nearly every nest of this 

 species which I have ever seen. 



Harry H. Uunn, 

 Fullerton, Cal 

 {To be continued.) 



A Naturalized Volcano- 



Wriiten by A. U. Berry in September Min- 

 eral Collector. 



So far it had been necessary to take 

 the volcano for granted. The ticket 

 for the trip called for a visit to Kila- 

 uea, and the man in Honolulu who 

 sold it had spoken of the volcano as 

 an existing geographical and geologi- 

 cal fact. Even the signboard of the 

 hotel read "\'olcano House," so there 

 must be such a thing in the neighbor- 

 hood. Yet there was not the faintest 

 vestige of the burning lakes of tlame 

 and the crash of nature in hottest con- 

 vulsion which were written about, 

 page after page, by people who had 

 seen Kilauea and given it a puff in the 

 visitors' book at which the traveller 

 had glanced before going to bed the 

 night before. 



All the day before had been given 

 to thirty odd miles of staging steadily 



up the mountain. There had been a 

 sight of dense jungles where guavas 

 grew along the roadside, where every 

 great trunk seemed to serve for a bo- 

 tanical hotel for a lodging population 

 of ferns and orchids, where the ferns 

 themselves were trees ten and twenty 

 feet high. Just out of Hilo the road 

 began in the cane fields, where every 

 breath of the trade wind showers a 

 stifling haze of golded-brown pollen, 

 better to look at than to breathe. 

 Then it led into the clammy dampness 

 of the jungli , spiced with the odors of 

 the wild ginger and a score of blooms 

 known hitherto only by learned names 

 in hothouse setting. How the senses 

 reel where choice e.xotics are the way- 

 side weedsl Here was a group of 

 cabins with queer red daubs trailing 

 snakewise above the door and prob- 

 ably conveying interesting Asiatic in- 

 formation, homes of the small Japs, 

 whom one passes swaggering along 

 the way, and making clear that the 

 future of Hawaii if not American 

 would be surely Japanese. More 

 modestly set in nooks of the forest, 

 richer in local color, here and there 

 was a grass house of the native Ha- 

 waiian. Then came the lands where 

 fortunes are looked for in the cultiva- 

 tion of coffee. The planters come to 

 meet the volcano stage for it carries 

 the mail. At every stop before each 

 of these trim little orchards of fifty or 

 a hundred acres the planter bids you 

 "look at those cherries; did you ever 

 see anything finer.'" and you learn 

 that there is a stage of the coffee when 

 it is a cherry. Or from his pocket he 

 brings out something that has the 

 coffee shape but the silvery drab of a 

 gentle Quakeress, and as he talks 

 about the bean in the parchment skin 

 you come to know that coffee has its 

 own history before it comes even to 

 be roasted, and the history begins 

 very prettily indeed on both sides of 

 the road with the cream and red of 

 the cherries and the two shades of 

 green on the leaves. And all these 

 young planters speak so confidently of 



