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NOTES ON THE NORTHERN RANGE OF THE FISH CROW 

 (CORVUS OSSIFRAGUS), WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF ITS 

 HABITS. 



BY LOUIS A. ZEREGA. 



In speaking of the Fish Crow, Dr. T. M. Brewer says* that 

 " Mr. Lawrence is confident that it never occurs farther north than 

 Squan Beach, in New Jersey." That this opinion is incorrect is 

 evident from the following facts. Eight specimens were shot by 

 Mr. E. B. Keeler at his home near Seabright, Monmouth County, 

 New Jersey ; these were kindly presented to me by Mr. Keeler, to 

 whom I express my sincere thanks for this as well as many similar 

 favors. Three Fish Crows have been captured by Mr. Robert 

 White along the shore of Sandy Hook Bay, between the Highlands 

 of the Navesink and Sandy Hook. This species has also been found, 

 on several occasions, north of Sandy Hook. Mr. Edgar A. Mearns 

 killed a beautiful female at Highland Falls, N. Y., on the Hudson 

 River, on the 7th of May, 1877, as recoi-ded in this Bulletin (Vol. 

 Ill, No. 1, pp. 45, 46) for January, 1878. In the same issue of the 

 Bulletin (p. 47), Mr. Clarence H. Eagle records the capture of a fine 

 female of this species near Rockaway, Long Island, on the 17th of 

 July, 1873. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt shot a male at Oyster Bay, 

 Long Island, on December, 30, 1874.t This makes the third au- 

 thentic record of its capture in New York ; and Mr. Eugene P. Bick- 

 nell noticed a pair that appeared at Riverdale, N. Y., on the Hudson, 

 on Feb. 24, 1878, and remained for some time in that vicinity. $ 

 In Massachusetts, Mr. William Brewster saw a Fish Crow at Cam- 

 bridge on the morning of March 16, 1875,§ and J. H. Linsley gave 

 it as occurring at Stratford, Connecticut.! 



It is not generally known that the most northern point at which 

 this species occurs in abundance is no farther south than Sandy 

 Hook, and the adjacent parts of the New Jersey coast. I have no 



* History of North American Birds, Vol. II, 1874, p. 252. 

 t See "Notes on some of the Birds of Oyster Bay, Long Island," March, 

 1579.* 



J See this Bulletin, Vol. Ill, No. 3, p. 131, July, 1878. 



§ See this Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 1, p. 19, April, 1876. 



II Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, Vol. XLIV, No. 2, p. 260, 1843. 



