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all brought from the mainland four or five miles distant. The 

 Rev. W. Waldo Cooper has known a nest repaired the second 

 year. 



The eggs, four to six in number, are pale bluish green, 

 spotted and speckled with grey and brown: some are pale 

 blue undertinted with grey. 



Male; weight, about nineteen ounces; length, one foot eight 

 to ten inches; bill, black, covered at the base by bristly 

 feathers turned downwards; iris, dark brown. The whole 

 plumage is black, glossed with blue and green, but the edges 

 of the feathers on the back are without the burnish; the 

 back reflecting shades of metallic green. The wings expand 

 to the width of three feet five inches; the first feather is 

 half the length of the fourth, the second one inch shorter 

 than the fourth, the third and fourth nearly equal, the latter 

 the longest in the wing-, the fifth scarcely shorter than the 

 third, the sixth the same as the third. The tail, nearly 

 square at the end, and shorter in proportion than the Raven's ; 

 legs, toes, and claws, black. 



The female resembles the male; length, one foot six to 

 eight inches; the wings, in width three feet two to three feet 

 four inches. 



The young in the first } r ear have less of the metallic lustre 

 on the "back. 



