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foraging around the packing houses located at the various towns, particu- 
larly Terre Haute (twenty or twenty-two miles south) and Armiesburg, in 
Parke county, on the old Wabash & Erie Canal (seven or eight miles dis- 
tant) west and north. 
A roost is reliably reported to have existed some eight years ago about 
one mile northwest of Brown’s Valley, Montgomery county, Indiana 
(about thirteen miles southwest of Crawfordsville). This is said not to 
exist there at present. ; 
The same person, a Rey. Mr. Kendall, of Dana, formerly of Brown’s 
Valley, who reported. the Brown’s Valley roost, stated that another was 
located about one mile north of Guion (the crossing of the T. H. & L. Divi- 
sion of the Vandalia and the I., D. & W. Railroad) in the timber not far 
from Little Raccoon Creek. 
The last two roosts mentioned seem not to have been as large as those 
of Eastern Illinois. 
Those acquainted with the Illinois roosts state that the crows are not 
in the habit of feeding near the roost, though they are some times destruc- 
tive to corn in the roasting-ear stage. 
The roosts are very noisy. The birds will often alight two and three 
deep on limbs, bending the branches and splitting the tree tops. The set- 
tling down for the night is accompanied by cries and caws, crashing of 
limbs and the continuous flutter and flapping of wings as the birds move 
about to find vacant perches. 
Nearly all with whom I have talked of these roosts state that the 
crows will defend the roost against an ordinary intrusion by a single per- 
son or by a few persons, showing great pugnacity. However, when a 
general onslaught is made and the battle seems too much, they arise and 
move away. They haye been known to ruin fields of corn which had 
attained a height of several feet on alighting after a flight from such 
attacks. 
BRUNNICH’s GUILLEMOT (URIA LOMVIA) AN ADDITION TO THE Brirps or IN- 
pIANA. By A. W. Buruer. 
The effects of storms upon birds are always of great interest. It 
makes no difference whether this is the flight of migrants during a dark 
and stormy night against the protection of the lights of a lighthouse or 
of a lighting tower, or the death-dealing effects of a chilling storm upon 
