102 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
RAVEN. 
Corvus coraAx, Linnzeus. 
The Raven has long been extinct in Cheshire, 
although there can be little doubt that it was once 
resident on the wild moorlands of Longdendale and 
other parts of the Eastern Hills. So plentiful, in- 
deed, were Ravens at the beginning of the eighteenth 
century, that only one penny per head was paid for 
their destruction by the church-wardens of Stockport. 
Ravens formerly frequented the marshes of the Dee 
Estuary, and they were abundant there until about 
the year 1866, when, Brockholes believed, poison was 
employed by the farmers in order to exterminate them 
on account of their depredations amongst the sheep. 
He records that a pair nested on the west side of 
Hilbre Island in the spring of 1857.2. There is a bird 
in Captain Congreve’s collection which was obtained at 
Burton in 1840. 
CARRION CROW. 
CorRVUS CORONE, Linnzus. 
Game-preservation has well-nigh banished the Carrion 
Crow from Cheshire, but even in the face of relentless 
persecution a few pairs still succeed in rearing their 
young in different localities in the Plain. Mr. K. H. 
Jones tells us he found a nest at Delamere in May 
1896; and in the same month in 1883 we found a 
freshly-killed bird nailed to a tree near Carrington 
Moss. Writing in 1882, Mr. Thomas Worthington 
1 Heginbotham, Stockport, Ancient and Modern, p. 269. 
2 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 8; and Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary 
and Philosophical Society, vol. xv., 1860-61, p. 18. 
3 Dobie, op. cit. p. 304. 
