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men and gave it to me in the flesh. I found it to be a female in the imma- 
ture plumage and it is now in my collection, No. 1491. 
Corvus corax principalis. NorTHerN Raven.— On one of the many 
lovely lakes in the Temagami Forest Reserve, District of Nipissing, Ontario, 
a rocky promontory rises rather abruptly from the water level to a height 
of perhaps one hundred and fifty feet. 
As I was paddling past the foot of this cliff on June 9, 1909, a raven flew 
from the face of the cliff and quickly disappeared in the forest, its flapping 
and sailing flight identifying it immediately, and, as it flew, it uttered a 
harsh, guttural croak. 
I soon noticed its nest, about fifteen feet from the top of the cliff. It 
appeared large and coarsely built of sticks, but neatly fastened in a small 
crevice of the rocks. 
Wishing to photograph the nest, I strapped my camera to my waist and 
was soon climbing over the tumbled rock talis at the foot of the cliff. As 
I went up, the footing became less secure until finally I was clutching at 
lichen-covered rocks to cling to the narrow ledges. Finally, an overhanging 
wall made further progress impossible and I was still far from the nest. 
So I came down and went around to the top of the cliff, through the woods. 
The stone at the top of the cliff was very crumbly, but careful crawling 
brought me to the edge, within ten or fifteen feet of the raven’s nest, where 
I could look into it easily. At close range it was seen to be carefully built, 
chiefly of large, dead sticks, and well fitted into the crevice of the cliff. 
It was warmly lined with willow catkins. Three downy, open-mouthed 
young ones were crowding each other, in expectation of their next meal, 
and I secured a good picture of them before descending. 
The action of the old birds was always to fly to a distant tree-top to 
watch me. 
By July 14, the young birds were able to fly clumsily from one ledge of 
the cliff to the next and, later, I saw them taking noisy lessons in woodcraft 
in the tree-tops of the pine forest near their rocky home. 
The Ojibway Indians knew this cliff as Crow Rock and said that the 
birds had always nested there. 
Other families of young and old ravens were seen in the vicinity of 
similar cliffs on at least two other lakes. 
The Raven has long been assumed to nest in Northern Ontario. In 
this connection, C. W. Nash, in his ‘ Manual of Vertebrates of Ontario’ 
says ‘‘ probably breeds in the remote forests towards James Bay.’’ Ap- 
parently this is the first published breeding record from Ontario’s vast 
hinterland. 
Spinus pinus. Prine Siskrn.— On April 13, 1915, in the early morning, 
while walking up the ravine of a small creek which flows into the Don River, 
I noticed a Pine Siskin fly into the top of a small cedar tree. Careful 
scrutiny of the tree made me believe that there must be a nest, although 
it could not be seen definitely from the ground. Upon climbing the tree, 
which was twenty-five to thirty feet high, the nest was found very near 
