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When built under the shelter of overhanging rocks 

 much less effort is made to construct a nest than is 

 done when their home is placed high up in some tall 

 pine or other large forest tree. The eggs are usually 

 4 or 5 in number; they measure about 2 inches long by 

 1.30 inches in width. Their color is "greenish, dotted, 

 blotched and clouded with neutral tints, purplish and 

 blackish-browns." 



THEY RAISE ONE BROOD. 



Ravens, like other birds of their family, raise but 

 one brood of young in a year. However, if. by some 

 mishap, their nest or eggs are destroyed they will nest 

 again. 



LIKE ONE NESTING PLACE. 



The Raven, like the piratical Bald Eagle, will return 

 year after year to the same nesting place. 



There is near Zerby station, in Centre county, a sec- 

 tion, by the way, which is noted for the number and 

 high degree of excellence of the brainy Governors it 

 has produced, a high point on one of the mountain 

 ranges, which is made up of immense bowlders which 

 weigh tons and tons. The place is practically inacces- 

 sible. Here, for fifteen years past, a pair of croaking 

 Ravens have annually raised their families. 



t/p:ft in sorro^v and DisnusT. 

 At Glen Union, Clinton county, a pair of very foxy 

 Ravens, for three or four consecutive years to my 

 knowledge, every spring reared a nestful of young on 

 a high rocky bluff along the Susquehanna river. 

 About two years ago, a venturesome boy, after con- 

 siderable hard work, climbed to the nest and got a 



