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“One locality south of Metcalf, Vermillion county, Illinois, and west 
of Edgar Station, Edgar county, Illinois, is mentioned. Another farther 
west, north of Newman, Douglass county, Illinois, is also mentioned. 
“Tt is said that the crows are quite pugnacious if any one invades the 
roost to do them harm, and are able to make it unpleasant for the invader. 
The farmers do not molest them, as they do not feed or do any damage 
to the crops anywhere near the roost.” 
In June last I was in Dana, Indiana, with the intention of visiting 1 
roost which I heard was located at Hume, a station on the IL, D. & W. 
Railroad, in Vermillion county, Illinois, about nineteen miles west of the 
State line, but learned of Mr. D. V. Bradley, of “The Hume Record,” with 
whom I talked by telephone, that it would be useless to visit the roost at 
that time, as the crows were all nesting in the timber lands of the country 
over which they fed (parts of Edgar and Vermillion counties, Illinois, and 
Vermillion county, Indiana), and would not again congregate at the roost- 
ing place until about October, when the nesting season would be over. Mr. 
Bradley stated that several years ago these crows, which number many 
thousands, roosted about two miles north of Hume. Being molested and 
driven from that point, they established a roost in a maple grove (on the 
farm of John Hardin), southeast of Hume (distance not stated), and being 
vagain disturbed, they moved to a grove across a slough, about one-half a 
mile north of Hume, at which point they were last winter. 
A similar roost is reported at Camargo, Douglass county, Illinois, about 
thirty-two miles west of the State line, on the I., D. & W. Railroad. Years 
ago it was within sight of the railroad. 
Mr. George M. Gossett, formerly residing near or in Edgar, Edgar 
County, Illinois, about ten miles west of the line, reports a large roost 
near that place. 
Several old citizens of Helt Township, Vermillion county, Indiana, 
(James Kauffman, Richard Gilmore and others), report that about twenty 
or twenty-two years ago a large roost existed in the southern part of the 
township in some of the pieces of timber along the edge of the prairie and 
a few miles west of the Wabash Riyer (about seven miles north and west 
of Clinton). The persons who had known this roost state that the crows 
fed up and down the Wabash River and to the east of it into Parke county, 
