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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
AVES. 
Starlings on Sheep’s Back.—I have the following note, dated 
Sept. 23rd, 1903 :—“ Saw Starlings in a field of fairly long grass. 
They frequently rose from the grass, in which they could not be seen, 
to perch on the back of sheep. They apparently used the latter as a 
look-out, and occasionally pecked something off it. They walked 
with care on the wool, and did not mind the sheep being in motion.’ — 
F. B. Krrxman (Letchworth). 
Additional Notes on the Domestic Habits of Corvus corone. — In 
transcribing my field notes on the domestic habits of the Carrion- 
Crow, which appeared in ‘The Zoologist’ (ante, p. 321), I inad- 
vertently omitted a series relating to another pair, making the third 
which I watched. From these I now select three which have a 
definite value. 
April 9tb, 1910.—I forgot, in my entry of the 7th, to mention 
the curious intonation of the note of one of these Crows quite near 
me, though I could not see it through the white morning mist which 
enshrouded everything. It was not the harsh “ arrr, arrr, arrr’’ any 
more, but a quite different sounding, ‘‘oh, oh, oh,’ something re- 
sembling the human voice (or a less aggravated variety of it), but 
also with a suspicion of the sound made in uncorking a bottle of wine, 
or by imitating that sound with the finger and thumb, like the Caper- 
cailzie’s ‘‘kunststiick,” but far less pronounced. I cannot describe the 
note any better, and this does very little. This morning, between 
6 and 7, I saw the bird, uttering this peculiar note, quite near. It 
threw up its head, each time, in the usual way, pronouncing it three 
times, and, its back being turned to me, I noticed how broadly the 
tail was, each time, fanned out. Is this note the so-called ‘“song”’ 
of the male? for the ordinary one is uttered, I believe, by both sexes 
upon ordinary occasions, and with the same action. 
May 1st.—Got to the place at 4.30 a.m., and as I cycled by saw 
the one Crow sitting by the nest, and the other in it—for it was 
lighter than I had thought it would be at this time. The perched 
Crow did not appear to notice me, any more than on the other morning. 
Zool. 4th ser. vol. X VI., October, 1912. 2H 
