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them. The note's of the adults were chiefly a short and not very loud cur-ruk 

 or cruk, with a roll to the r, and a somewhat prolonged, loud, hollow-sounding 

 croak or cr-r-r-awk, pronounced with the guttural r, like the sound produced 

 in gargling. This latter note can be heard a long way off and is very impressive. 

 The tone is entirelv different from anything I have ever heard from the common 



A RAVEN'S NEST 

 "In a niche on the side of an almost vertical cliff, perhaps forty feet in height." 

 Photographed by Frederic Dorr Steele 



Crow. Sometimes this loud croak was given as three short notes instead of a 

 single long one. 



I watched one of the old Ravens sailing about above Black Head in company 

 with an Osprey, one bird frequently diving at the other. In these encounters 

 the Osprey was commonly the aggressor. The Raven sailed almost as well 



