94 THE COMMON CROW. 



offer of such a bounty, and so soon as the survivors became too wary 

 to be easily secured their pursuit would be generally abandoned and 

 the species would reestablish itself. 



It seems probable that in most places the Crow is neither so harmful 

 nor so valuable as to render special laws necessary for its destruction or 

 protection, but from a purely economic standpoint the attempt to rid a 

 State of Crows by bounties or any other means must prove either a 

 complete failure or a most expensive success. 



