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rudcii iiiid frozen apiiles wliicli hang ou the Iwig.s; 

 antl, like tlii'ii- saucy relations, llie Jays, dressed in 

 jainity plumed haxs, white vests and bright blue coats, 

 they eat chestnuts, beechnuts, acorns and other seeds 

 known as "mast." They catch frogs and sometimes 

 kill and devour small sized snakes. They will go in 

 shallow water to calch lislies wliich lliey consume. 

 .Most liesh eating animals, cilher birds or (luadni- 

 peds, which obtain their livelihood by open warfarfe, 

 do not show an inclination to feed upon carrioai and 

 ofl'al unless compelled to do so by reason of the 

 scarcity of normal food supi>lies. 



The Ixaven, however, has the habit of subsisting, in 

 I>art at least, ou such a menu, even when other food 

 could be obtained with the usual cunning and activity 

 displayed by this race of pilferers. Of this I was 

 fully convinced some three years ago, when visiting 

 at Glen Union, Clinton county. Pa., where two or 

 tliree families of Ravens had their headquarters in 

 rocky clitl's, some four miles in the interior. At ir- 

 regular intervals some of the meddlesome tribe would 

 come down to dwellings, along the Susquehanna river, 

 and steal a young chicken or rob a hen's nest; and, 

 ou one occasion, I noticed two of them in a vine, 

 along the road near the railroad station (Glen Union), 

 eating "fro**!" or chicken grapes, a common article of 

 diet, by the way, tor the Pheasant or Ruffed Grouse. 

 These Ravens daily came to the places where the 

 woodsmen ate their dinners and fed the hoises. and in 

 a short time after l)eing allowed to \nvk \^^. nn 

 molested. i)ieces of bread and meat about the camp, 

 thev became <]uite lame, unless they saw a stranger 



