During Boer War 19 
Colonel Kincaid, set about attaching it to the ordinary telegraph 
wires running along the posts near the railway. 
Looking round for a convenient post I espied a big nest built 
on top of one hard by. As far as I recall, there were only three 
cag I I 
A NESTING PLACE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN CROW. 
insulators and wires, yet the bird, the South African Crow (Corvus 
capensis) had managed to construct a compact nest composed of 
various short lengths of telegraph wire and clippings from barbed 
wire fences—both trees and sticks were scarce in that region. A 
