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Concord, Mass.
1916
Aug. 30
to
Nov. 4

Migrating Crows.

weather when it was interesting to watch their
leisurely, level and straight-onward flight as they
passed in seemingly endless and impressively well-ordered
procession all keeping to nearly the same elevated, aerial
pathway but following one another at least fifty or more
yards apart. On such occasions the sound of their
voices, coming from far and near, was very pleasing, 
especially when mellowed by distance. For the most
it consisted of single caws, uttered with ever-varying
intonations by widely-separated members of the sable
throng. There was seldom or never any clamorous and
general outcry excepting when, as occasionally happened,
the birds descended to feed awhile in grassy meadows or
fields of unharvested corn. Then and there they were
given to not infrequent outbursts of prolonged & vociferous
cawing in which every member of the flock seemed to be