126 THE Birps AsouTt Us. 
is smaller, measuring about sixteen inches, while the 
common crow measures eighteen to twenty inches ; 
but besides this, the general build of the fish-crow is 
more slender, and the wing-movement varies to a 
more gull-like manner, which is a peculiarity that 
we readily detect when familiar with the bird. 
Florida, California, and the Northwest each have a 
crow of their own, but they do not vary in appear- 
ance or habits greatly from the typical form of the 
East. In every country they are cunning birds, and 
it is probable that no other form of bird-life has ad- 
“intellectually.” 
In the “ higher coniferous forests of Western North 
America, north to Putnam River, Alaska, south to 
Arizona, east to (and including) Rocky Mountains,” 
is found a “ crow” known as Clarke’s Nut-cracker. 
Dr. Coues says of it,— 
vanced so far as have these crows 
“Tt rarely descends below an altitude of 3000 feet, and has been 
observed on peaks 10,000 feet high. A hardy bird, finding its food 
at all seasons, Clarke’s Crow is not a true migrant; that is to say, it 
does not move north and south at regular periods; . . . is an indis- 
criminate feeder upon vegetable substances, giving preference, how- 
ever, to the seeds of the pine, berries of the cedar, and acorns.” 
The Bobolink, Reed-bird, Rice-bird, Ortolan, and 
I know not what else, is a bird that is thoroughly 
well known. Popular literature seems better fitted to 
teach ornithology than the best efforts of scientific 
naturalists. ‘“ Bobolink” has become a household 
word, and the bird has been pictured until every 
child carries it in his “reader” or knows it from the 
dainty pages of juvenile books, now, happily, a feature 
of every home. Bryant has made “ bobolink” classic, 
