I08 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [BulL 



A regular migration westward occurs near the coast late in 

 October, as has often been witnessed by L. B. B. and many others^ 



Roost. In the early eighties there was a larger winter roost 

 in a pine grove in Hamden, containing probably 10,000 birds on 

 the night of Feb. 22, 1882 (L. B. B.) . 



Nest. Large nest of sticks, dry weeds, etc., often lined with 

 grapevine bark, usually close to the trunk of a chestnut or conifer,, 

 or in the top of a poplar, birch, or other tree ; 12 to 80 feet from 

 the ground. 



Eggs. 4-7, commonly 4 or 5 ; middle of April. 



Nesting dates. Earliest record. April 10, 1882, three eggs- 

 (L. B. B.). Latest record. June 12, 1892, four eggs (J. C. 



A. M.). 



Unusual eggs. Six pinkish eggs were found in a nest near- 

 New Haven, May 8, 1884 (two in coll. of L. B. B.) ; light blue, 

 almost unspotted eggs also occur in nests in which the other eggs- 

 are normal; a single egg in a set of six found measuring only 

 1.20 by .87 inch. May 18, 1893, Stratford (J. C. A. M.) ; a set 

 of four pinkish eggs is in the Wood collection at the Morgan- 

 Memorial, Hartford, taken at South Windsor (J. H. S.). 



A set of seven eggs was collected in the spring of 1893 near- 

 New Haven (H. W. F.). 



L. B. B. records a Crow found in New Haven, Sept. i, 1906, 

 with a peculiar hoarse voice, which upon examination was learned' 

 to be due to a profuse purulent rhinitis. 



A cinnamon colored Crow is recorded from Groton, Aug. 20,,. 

 1879.^ 



Corvus ossifragus Wilson. Fish Crow. 



A rather rare resident near the coast, and extending some- 

 distance up the larger rivers. 



Distribution. Small colonies and isolated nests have beeni 

 found near the shore of the Sound at Woodmont, Milford, and 

 Stratford (J. C. A. M.) ; at Niantic (Hill) ; New Haven (L. B.. 



B. and C. C. T.) ; Fairfield and vicinity (Eames) f various points- 

 in Fairfield County (Beers) ; along the Housatonic Valley, as- 

 far north as Gaylordsville (Eames) ; along the Connecticut River- 



10. and O., vi, 7, p. 55. 

 ^Auk, X, I-, p. 89. 



