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BIRDS OF NORTH CAROLINA 



Ravens were said by Wayne to breed there. (Auk, Jan., 1910, p. 85.) Bruner and 

 Feild found ravens on Roan Mountain, June 29, 1911. Besides these definite 

 localities, Brewster stated that in 1885 it was common in the portion of the State he 

 visited (parts of Macon, Jackson, Haywood, and Buncombe counties) , everywhere 

 above 5,000 feet. There is a mounted specimen in the State Museum at Raleigh 

 which came from Topton, in Cherokee County, in April, 1906. It was a fully- 

 feathered young bird when received, and it was kept alive for more than a year. 

 During its captivity its food consisted entirely of animal matter, all kinds of vege- 

 table food being consistently refused. 



FIG. 168. NORTHERN RAVEN. 



A second specimen reached the Museum on February 9, 1912. This came from 

 Bushnell, in Swain County. It had been caught in a steel trap and died on the 

 night of its arrival at the Museum. 



The first of these two specimens was a male; the second an adult female, with 

 ovaries not showing any indication of early nesting. 



The Raven formerly inhabited the coast, and in the eighties there was a mounted 

 specimen in the possession of Clarke and Morgan, taxidermists, at New Bern, said 



