THE NORTHWEST CROW. 1s 
their dried fish and other things, while from superstitious feelings the 
Indians never kill them but set a child to watch and drive them away. They 
build in trees near the shore in the same way as the common crow and the 
young are fledged in May.” 
Mr. J. F. Edwards, a pioneer of °67, tells me that in the early days a 
small drove of pigs was an essential feature of every well-equipped saw-mill 
on Puget Sound. The pigs were given the freedom of the premises, slept 
in the saw dust, and dined behind the mess-house. Between meals they 
wandered down to the beach and rooted for clams at low tide. The Crows 
were not slow to learn the advantages of this arrangement and posted them- 
selves promptly in the most commanding and only safe positions; viz., on 
the backs of the pigs. The pig grunted and squirmed, but Mr. Crow, mindful 
of the blessings ahead, merely extended a balancing wing and held on. ‘The 
instant the industrious rooter turned up a clam, the Crow darted down, 
seized it in his beak and made off; resigning his station to some sable 
brother, and leaving the porker to reflect discontentedly upon the rapacity 
of the upper classes. Mr. Edwards declares that he has seen this little 
comedy enacted, not once, but a hundred times, at Port Madison and at 
Alberni, V. I. 
The Fish Crows have learned from the gulls the delights of sailing 
the main on driftwood. I have seen numbers of them going out with the 
tide a mile or more from shore, and once a Crow kept company with three 
gulls on a float so small that the gulls had continually to strive for position; 
but the Crow stood undisturbed. 
BIRDS AND BOATS AT NEAH BAY. Photo by the Author. 
