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Concord, Mass.
1916
Aug. 30
to
Nov. 11

Migrating Crows
Resident Crows

taking part.
  Although passing oftenest during tranquil weather
the migrant Crows sometimes appeared when it was
otherwise and then might be seen in rather compact flocks
now mounting above, next disappearing below or behind
wooded ridges with many a graceful, curving swoop,
as they advanced laboriously against violent, adverse
gusts of wind. Our locally-resident Crows seemed
disinclined to intermingle with alien ones invading
their haunts of such occasions but instead busied
themselves with their own affairs, in accustomed ways.
That most if not all of them remain in Concord
throughout the year is open to little doubt. Such, at
least, is certainly the case with one particular bird
whose unvarying and characteristic caw-car-r-r
(very strongly emphasized on the second syllable) has