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Many hainan beings habitually shoot crows. Some 

 do so simply because these " treble-dated " birds 

 annoy them, while others do so in order to protect 

 their pockets. These latter suspend the dead crow 

 over a corn field as a warning to the rest of his kind. 



In the olden times the crow was reckoned as 

 good shikar. It is recorded in the Emperor 

 Jehangir's game-book that the royal sportsman bag- 

 ged over two thousand crows in the course of his 

 shooting expeditions. 



I understand that to-day Frenchmen in New 

 Caledonia look upon our sable friends as game of 

 the first water ; hence the crows of that convict 

 settlement have become as wily as the serpent, so 

 that if a chasseAcr bags a brace as the result of a full 

 day's shooting he feels aggrieved if the deed be not 

 forthwith "crowned " by the French Academy. 



Thomas Atkins must be numbered among the 

 deadly enemies of the crow. The impudence of the 



bird naturally puts 

 up the back of a 

 soldier bold, so the 



