THE AMERICAN CROW. 3 
No. 2. 
AMERICAN CROW. 
A. O. U. No. 488. Corvus americanus Aud. 
Description.—Entire plumage glossy black, for the most part with green- 
ish-blue, steel-blue and purplish reflections ; feathers of the neck normal, rounded. 
Length 17.00-21.00 (431.8-533.4) ; wing 12.00-14.00 (304.8-355.6); tail 7.00- 
8.00. (177.8-203.2) ; bill 1.80-2.05 (45.7-52.1), depth at base .72- "84 (18.3-21.3). 
Female averages smaller than male. 
Nest, a neat hemisphere of sticks lined carefully with bark, roots and 
trash, and placed 10-90 feet high in trees. Eggs, 4-7, usually 5, same coloring as 
Raven’s. Occasionally fine markings produce a uniform olive-green effect. “AY. 
size, 1.00 X 1.20 (40.6x 30.5). 
General Range.—North America at large, except Arctic regions and Florida. 
In the latter region replaced by C. a. pascuus. Of local distribution in the West. 
Range in Ohio.—Of general occurrence. Retires irregularly from the 
northern portion of the state in winter. 
Photo by the Author. 
GATHERING STORM AT THE CROW WOODS. 
CHESTER HEIGHTS (NEAR COLUMBUS) WAS A WELL KNOWN CROW NESTING RESORT JUST 
PREVIOUS TO ITS PRESENT OCCUPATION BY STYLISH RESIDENCES. 
THE Crow’s year properly begins with the disbanding of the winter 
roost in late February or early March. When the first south wind bursts 
into the chilly atelier of spring, siezes a brush and paints the eastern sky with 
somber blues and piled up grays, his picture is incomplete until there is 
stretched across the canvas a long black line of the hurrying birds. Crows 
