OLD FRIENDS IN NEW PLACES 
sparrows and juncoes traveled in company with the 
white-throats, as they are usually found together 
by day. If they do, the song sparrows would begin 
to drop out of the procession by the time they 
reached the Potomac, and continue dropping out 
more and more all through New York and New Eng- 
land, but some of them keeping on well into Canada. 
The juncoes would begin to drop out in the Catskills, 
where they breed, and a few white-throats may do 
so likewise, as I have found them in midsummer in 
some of the higher regions of these mountains. 
Fear and suspicion are almost constant compan- 
ions of most of the wild creatures. Even the crow, 
who has no natural enemies that I know of, is the 
very embodiment of caution and cunning. That 
peculiar wing-gesture when he alights or walks about 
the fields — how expressive it is! It is a little flash 
or twinkle of black plumes that tells you how alert 
and on his guard he is. It is a difficult problem to 
settle why the crow is so suspicious and cunning, 
since he has few or no natural enemies. No creature 
seems to want his flesh, tough and unsavory as it 
evidently is, and we can hardly attribute it to his 
contact with man, as we can the wildness of the 
hawk, because, on the whole, mankind is rather 
friendly to the crow. His suspicion seems ingrained, 
and probably involves some factor or factors in his 
biological history that we are ignorant of. 
On the whole, it is only the birds and animals 
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