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youngster makes a still more disagreeable gurgling 

 or gargling sound which is but the- prchulc to 

 more cars. Young crows are always calling for 

 more. 



The year following this determination to ex- 

 clude nesting crows, I found the evidence of a 

 crow tragedy in numerous scattered feathers of 

 that bird. It was plain that a hawk or perhaps 

 a great horned owl had relieved me of the job for 

 no nesting crow intruded that year. I trust that 

 the tradition of the dangers of the forest to crows 

 will persist. 



Another bird I do not care to have nest in my 

 forest is that enterprising and intelligent bird, 

 the bronzed grackle. My reasons are the same 

 as in the case of the crow. He is destructive to 

 other birds' eggs and young, and peace-disturbing 

 not only when his own young are calling for 

 food, but even when he himself is singing in his 

 best manner. 



Of late years the grackle has shown his enter- 

 prise and intelligence by taking to nesting in 

 cities and towns and about houses. Prior t() 

 1900 he was rarely to be seen in the Public Gar- 



