Ilu' sliai|M'\c.l Kavcii, will Ik- alliickrd ami calcn b.\ 

 him afU'T lu' lias coiivincod liiiusi-lf thai tlu' niaiiiiiial 

 ()!• bird, suspondi'd from the cwd or lluo foppi'i' wire, 

 has not boeii i)laced there as a lure to his own dcstrnc- 

 lion. In this Stale Ravens are {jenerallv seen sin^jlv 

 or in jiairs, bnl often, a pair with their family of in 

 i|iiisilive mid noisv children, of the vear, may be ob 

 serv.'d to-vlhei'. 



1 have known two .m- three pairs of Kavens lo remain 

 foi' two or three years in the same locality, i. e., in a 

 disirict, of perhaps eii;hl or ten miles sipiaiv. and each 

 pair of birds, as well as the yonnji imes. appeared to 

 evince no disposition !(>■ be on intimate relations with 

 their neijjlibors. Of eonrse the whole Raven clan, no 

 donbt, had a spenkini;- aeqnainlance, because llieir 

 hoarse voices eonld always he heard when they canu' 

 within hailinir distance, as was often the case. 



A-ri'Ai'K i,A.Mns A\n fawns. 

 l\a\ens. like (h(^ ('(Mnmcm ("row. will scinclhnes al 

 tack yonn- lambs and \n'ck onl their e,\ es. it is also 

 asserted by hnnlers (hat these birds ha\e been known 

 lo attack \ery yonn- P'awns when Ihcir watchful 

 mothers were not near at hand. 



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I have been told, by old hnnteis and woodsnnMi, 

 Dial Iweulx live o.r Ihirty years n.iro when the >'ir 

 .uinia I>(>er w,is abnndant in nnniy sections of IVnn 

 s\lvania, thai Uavcns were then rather iinnn-rons in 

 I he romantic wilds since made barr(>n Ihronsih the 

 woodsmen's axe aud devaslalin-: forest Hres. lu Ihose 



