CROW OR RAVEN 
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the Wimmera or the Goulburn Valley or other parts 
of the Northern Plain, you may, if you care to, 
distinguish this other Crow are these : it is smaller, 
and it has an appalling cry, like the shrill despairing 
cry of a child, in place of the good deep " waa-aa " 
of our larger southern Crow. 
The confusing thing is that they have the larger 
Crow in the north too, and in some parts it is the 
commoner bird ; but we never get the smaller Crow 
near Geelong. 
The Crow is a bird of the wide plain and not of 
forest country, and in the Geelong district is very 
plentiful on the plains north of the Barrabool Hills 
which merge into the Western District country, as 
also it is about the Werribee, Little River, and Lara ; 
but on the east (Queenscliff) side of the town it is 
a rare bird, while in the southern forest it is never 
seen in the spring and summer. Only occasionally 
is the forest visited by bands travelling about in the 
autumn and early winter. 
It is really a beautiful bird, in spite of the prejudice 
against it, and makes an amusing garden pet, being 
very vain and fond of having someone to watch its 
antics. 
The Crow nests earlier than any other bird in the 
district, taking the whole number of individuals and 
comparing them with those of any other species. 
It has only one brood, and the enormous majority of 
pairs nest in the month of August. Of very early 
nesting Mr. Allen Noble sent me a note from Wurrook, 
