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that he saw two in Lake county, October 12, 1883, and 8. E. White records 
one as seen at Grand Rapids, April 8, 1890. We have a specimen in the 
College Museum taken November 12, 1896, near Trout Lake, Mackinac 
county, Mich., and Mr. C. J. Scranton of West Branch, Ogemaw county, 
told the writer in 1899 that, although not common there, several were 
seen every winter and that they usually stayed through the summer. 
The same year Mr. Oscar Palmer of Grayling, Crawford county, assured us 
that it was not uncommon in that vicinity still. Major Boies found it 
rather common in the fall on Neebish Island in the St. Mary’s River, and 
O. B. Warren stated in 1898 that Ravens were seen every month of the year 
at Marquette, although they were rare. From 1889 to 1891 8. E. White 
found it common along the north shore of the Straits of Mackinac, and Mr. 
Newell A. Eddy of Bay City tells us that his last record for the Lower 
Peninsula is a pair seen at a lumber camp in Roscommon county, March 
27,1891. Judge J. H. Steere informed us in 1903 that the Raven was still 
very common at Sault Ste. Marie during some winters, often coming into 
the city after refuse. He stated that scores were killed in Chippewa county 
each winter by poison put out for wolves. Mr. Joplin of Munising informs 
us that it occurs regularly in winter on Grand Island (in Lake Superior), 
Alger county. Professor Eliot Blackwilder states that in Iron county 
(Upper Peninsula), it is a bird of the deep recesses of the forest, not 
common anywhere, but single pairs seen at frequent intervals (Auk, XXVI, 
1909, 368). 
Formerly the Raven doubtless nested all over the state and it is not 
impossible that it still nests in suitable places here and there. According 
to Hon. Chase 8. Osborn it breeds in the Upper Peninsula “in the tallest 
dense-topped conifers,’ and by the middle or latter part of April deposits 
from two to seven eggs, which are hatched after about twenty days. 
Under date of December 22, 1906, Mr. Osborn wrote: ‘During the last 
month I have seen quite a number of Ravens in this vicinity (near Ecker- 
man, Chippewa county), and upon one day I saw twenty-two, seven of 
them in one flight, but they are not as numerous as in former years.’ 
The only account which we have been able to get of the actual finding of 
a Raven’s nest in the Lower Peninsula comes from Mr. F. H. Chapin, of Kal- 
amazoo, and refers to a part of the state in which this bird would hardly be 
looked for under present conditions. Mr. Chapin writes: ‘In May, 1880, 
there was a large swamp, several miles long and two miles wide, at the head- 
waters of the north fork of the Paw Paw River, in Almena township, Van 
Buren county. Here, breeding for the most part in large sycamores, was 
a large colony of Great Blue Herons, Mr. Sykes and myself went up there 
to get some herons and I immediately remarked a pair of Ravens. I was 
unable to visit the place again, however, until April 26, 1889, when I 
returned to the heronry with Mr. L. E. Reed, a student at that time in 
Kalamazoo College. The herons were not there, but we noted a pair of 
Ravens and after some search we saw a bird leave a large nest. We secured 
this bird and also another which had appeared on the nest. Both proved 
to be full grown young of the year, and I have one of them still in my 
collection. We did not get the old birds, for they were too wary. The 
nest was situated on the broken top of a sycamore, sixty feet up. The top 
had been blown off squarely and on this break a very large nest of sticks 
had been built. March 18, 1890, Mr. Reed and myself again visited the 
place, hoping to secure the old Ravens and the eggs, but were disappointed 
in both respects. The old birds kept out of range and the nest contained 
