THE MEXICAN RAVEN. 4 7 
grunting koerr-koerr, and again by a clucking, a sort of self-satisfied sound, 
difficult to reproduce on paper; in fact they utter a variety of notes when at 
ease and undisturbed, among others a metallic sounding klunk, which seems 
to cost them considerable effort. In places where they are not molested they 
become reasonably tame, and I have seen Ravens occasionally alight in my 
yard and feed among the chickens, a thing I have never seen Crows do. * * 
“Out of some twenty nests examined only one was placed in a tree. It 
was in a good sized dead willow, twenty feet from the ground, on an island 
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in Sylvies River, Oregon, and easily reached; it contained five fresh eggs on 
April 13, 1875. The other nests were placed on cliffs, and, with few excep- 
tions, in positions where they were comparatively secure. Usually the nest 
could not be seen from above, and it generally took several assistants and 
strong ropes to get near them, and even then it was frequently impossible to 
reach the eggs without the aid of a long pole with a dipper attached to the end. 
A favorite site was a cliff with a southern exposure, where the nest was com- 
pletely covered from above by a projecting rock.” 
Having once chosen a nesting site, the Ravens evince a great attachment 
for that particular locality; and, rather than desert it, will avoid notice by 
deferring the nesting season, or by visiting the eggs or young only at night. 
We have no records of the taking of Raven’s eggs in Washington, but it 
