PLATE I 

 HOODED CROW. Corvus comix 



April 25///, 1897. The nest from which this Plate is taken was built among 

 the topmost branches of a small Scotch fir ; the tree was one of several, growing 

 on the edge of the moor beside a large wood. I saw the Crow fly off, and 

 climbed to the nest, expecting to find only one, or at the most two eggs, as in 

 South Perthshire (where the nest was) the Hooded Crow rarely begins to 

 lay before this date. I was agreeably surprised to find it contained five, so I 

 set about taking a photo of it. Fortunately there was another somewhat 

 taller tree growing quite close, and I succeeded in getting my camera fixed 

 on a long branch, and after sitting perfectly still for some minutes, hardly 

 daring to breathe till the swinging of the tree had stopped, I got a plate 

 exposed. 



Within a two-mile radius of this spot I found no less than nineteen 

 nests of this destructive bird. I however succeeded in snaring twenty-three 

 birds on their nests with fine wire nooses, and took eighty-three eggs, rather 

 a benefit to the game in the neighbourhood. 



VOL. in. R 65 



