CHAPTER IV. 



SO.MK OTHER mUH 



S, OROWS. JAYS AMI 



Five species of the f;iuiily rOKN'inAK are fmiiul in 

 reiinsylviinia, and of these tlie Oonimoii Crow ami 

 Uhie Jay are by far the best kinnvii. TiideiMl, ])roba- 

 bly noi two representatives of our hinl faiuia are inoie 

 familiar to persons who are at all actiuaintei] witli 

 iMii-al life than are the gaudy, garrulous Klnc .lay, ami 

 his suspiiidiis, iiilferin.n' ndative, the ('(iinnion Crow. 



The uortlioru Kaveii is a sub-species, thai was first 

 recognized and described by my friend. Prof. Robert 

 Ridgway, the eminent Ornithologist of the Smith- 

 sonian Institute, AVashington, D (\ This bird pos- 

 sesses peculiilrities which entitle it to be particular- 

 ized by the technical specific princijtalis to distinguish 

 the new form from that of its near kin the Common 

 Raven, {Corviis corax), of the older auihi>rities. 

 It ranges from "Greenland to Alaska, south to T.ritish 

 Columbia, Canada, New Brunswick" and rouusylvania. 

 In this State it is fcuud as a resident in a nvimber of 

 counties, particularly such as are mountainous and 

 whi.'h contain large areas of sparsely settled and ex- 

 leusivelv forested lauds. 



