108 



Resident. Collects in flocks from Angust to October, the majority 

 of which go further south to pass the winter. 



\214.'] I*erisoreiis canadensis (Liy;^.). Canada Jay. 



Breeding Range — Northern New England to Hudson Bay. 

 Winter Distribution — Southward to northern New York. 



Very rare stragsler in winter. Dr. A. C. Treichler secured one, 

 February, 1889, in Lancaster county, Pa. 



213. Cor vus corax principalis ^iT>Gw.'^ Raven. 



Breeding Range — Northern and eastern N. A. 

 Winter Distribution — Same. 



Resident along the Alleghanies and in the north central part of 

 Pennsylvania, occasionally straggling eastward during winter.f A 

 few also bi'eed in the dense cedar swamps of southern New Jersey. 

 Mr. Geo. B. Benners secured a pair of young from a nest nearTuck- 

 erton some years since, and Mr. Jillson informs us that a pair still 

 breed there. Messrs. S. N. Rhoads and W. Stone also saw a pair 

 at May's Landing, N. J., February, 1893, which were said to breed in 

 a neighboring cedar swamp. Solitary ravens are not infrequently 

 seen along the sea coast. 



216. Corviis americahus Aud. American Crow. 



Breeding Range — Eastern N. A., except Fk^ridaJ and the Arctic regions. 

 Winter Distribution — Mainly south of New England. 



Abundant resident, collecting in immense flocks during the winter. 

 These flocks have definite roosting places to which they resort every 

 night, and the same roosts are used winter after winter. 



Tlie birds fly in long lines, and following the same course every 



* Ravens from Centre county have been pronounced by Mr. Ridgway to be 

 C. c. principalis {Forest and Stream, XXXVII., p. 182) ; those from New Jersey 

 are intermediate between true C. c. principalis and C. c. sinuatus, the Western 

 Raven, though they are perhaps nearer to the former. Corvus corax is the 

 European race. — See Auk^ 1894, p. l:J7-138. 



f The record of this species in Delaware county (^4mA, 1891, p. 245) was an 

 unfortunate error. The specimen came from Fulton county, Pa., as was after- 

 wards ascertained. 



J There replaced by the Florida Crow C. americanus floridanus. 



