IS NOT THE FISH CROW {Corvjis ossifrag7is Wilson) A 

 WINTER AS WELL AS SUMMER RESIDENT AT THE 

 NORTHERN LIMIT OF ITS RANGE? 



|7T|| HE above query presented itself to me, January 2, 1882, when I 

 i-l received a fine specimen of this bird from Mr. D. B. Keeler, 

 Jr., of Rumsen's Neck, near Sandy Hook, N. J. It proved on dis- 

 section to be a female, whose stomach was filled with partially di- 

 gested fish. 



I presume that no one now questions the northern boundary ot the 

 habitat of the Fish Crow to be the upper New Jersey coast. Long 

 Island, Lower Hudson Valley, and the coast line of Connecticut, with 

 an occasional visitor to Massachusetts. I think that the records given 

 by Messrs. Zerega, Roosevelt, Bicknell, and others, to which I will 

 more particularly refer hereafter, establish this as a fact without 

 doubt. It is only within a few years that this Crow has been positively 

 credited to the localities above mentioned, although it may be that it 

 was always as common with us as it is now. but that owing to the 

 close resemblance to its larger brother [C.friigivonis), it escaped the 

 observation of the earlier naturalists. 



Until very recendy all references to the Fish Crow at the northern 

 limit of its habitat have been to the effect that it was there a summer 

 resident only. This opinion has been so generally accepted that it 

 is unnecessary here to bring forward any particular records. The 



