Cambridge, Mass.
1916
November
16
[November 16, 1916]
(No. 2)

Crow with dead Myrtle Warbler

sunlight. For several minutes after this he continued to
tug and pull at it vigorously, pulling out several feathers at
a time and tossing them aside to be blown away by the
strong wind or plunging his bill into the limp little body as
if endeavouring to extract from it shreds of meat or viscera which,
however, he apparently failed to thus obtain. Indeed I was
not a little surprised to note how futile and bungling he
seemed to be at both these undertakings. The other two
Crows watched him from nearby perches all the while but
made no obvious attempt to interfere with him in any way.
Followed by the others he finally flew afar off to the
northward, carrying the Warbler away in his bill. Presumably
it was the self-same Yellow-rump [Yellow-rumped Warbler] seen alive earlier in the
day for no other was afterwards to be found within our grounds.
If he really caught and killed the unfortunate little bird
it would be interesting to know just how this was accomplished