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FISH CROW. 



more recent records, on the other hand, I think establish it as a winter 

 resident wherever it is found in the summer. 



In the Bulletin of the Xuttall Ornithological Club, \'ol. I, page 19, 

 Mr. William Brewster reports having seen, March 16, 187 5. a Fish 

 Crow at Cambridge, Mass. 



In the same, \ ol. Ill, page 131. Mr Eugene P. Bicknell, in his 

 article on " Evidences of the Carolinian Fauna in the Lower Hudson 

 Valley," records a pair observed at Riverdale, New York city, on 

 February 24, and after. [*] 



In the same, \'ol. l\\ page 82, Prof. \V, E. D. Scott, of Princeton 

 College, in his " Late Fall and Winter Notes on some Birds observed 

 in the vicinity of Princeton, N. J., 1878-79" says : '' On January 21 

 I took a Fish Crow ( Corviis ossifragiis), and another on the following 

 day, and saw many others flying about with the common species." 

 He says further : " The preceding notes are not particularly remark- 

 able except in the case of the Hermit Thrush and Fox Sparrow, 

 both of which are. to say the least, very rare during so severe a 

 season." ]\Ir. Scott had been speaking of a number of birds and 

 among others the Fish Crow, and the inference is very marked that 

 he did not consider it (the Fish Crow) in the least a rare bird in win- 

 ter, even though the winter was an exceptionally severe one. 



In the same, \'ol. \', page 2o5, Mr. Louis A. Zerega, in his 

 " Notes on the Northern Range of the Fish Crow," says : '' Mr. 

 Theodore Roosevelt shot a male at Ovster Bav, Lono- Island, on 

 December 30, 1874." . . . . " On the 17th of March, 1880, Mr. 

 Keeler 'winged" a Fish Crow."' In speaking of the semi-diurnal 

 movements from the sleeping place in the woods to the feeding 

 ground along the shores he says : " These flights do not occur during 



[* Although it is not improbable that the Fish Crow may remain during winter in the Lower Hud- 

 son Valley, it is proper here to state that it has not actually been found at that season earlier than 

 the time above indicated. 



In this connection reference should not be omitted to Dr. E. A. Mearns' remarks on the Fish 

 Crow, bringing its history as a bird of New York State up to a recent date. — See Bull. Essex In- 

 stitute, Vol. XII, pp. 11Q-112. — Eds.] 



