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posed chiefly of sticks, while the ma- 

 terial of the latter consists mainly of 

 leaves. They are usually situated far 

 up in high trees. 



The flight of a Crow is slow and 

 straight, and the bird usually flaps its 

 wings, though I have seen a Crow sail 

 for a long distance. Crows occasionally 

 acquire the habit of eating the eggs out 

 of one's chicken yard. They are per- 

 manent residents, but the same individ- 

 uals that breed here, winter farther 

 south, and the Crows that winter with 

 us nest to the northward, probably in 

 northern New York. 



During the spring and fall we some- 

 times see the sky filled with Crows, 

 usually very high, and wending their 

 way southward. I saw as many as fif- 

 teen hundred and thirty-nine of them 

 passing overhead at Washington, D. C, 

 in January, 1910. They were flying in 



