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the sea, the Crow cried out and made for land, but fell with 
its prey into the water. 
I have seen as many as fifty Grey Crows together at 
Poolvash ; so large an assemblage is however very unusual, 
and as some of these birds had food in their beaks, was 
likely attracted by some carcass cast up. Smaller gatherings 
may sometimes be seen, but the bird is most often met with 
singly, or in twos and threes. 
‘Crows’ and ‘ Carrion Crows’ occasionally appear in the 
migration reports (on 25th November 1880, about two 
hundred and fifty ‘Crows’ flying east to west at Bahama), 
but we have no clear record of this species or form as a 
migrant in Man, and its numbers are scarcely perceptibly 
increased in winter. It is possible, however, that such a 
flock as that of fifty mentioned above was on passage. A 
smaller party, which on 19th September 1902 was crowded 
on a rocky knoll at Scarlett, had among them a single com- 
pletely black bird. 
On the rocks the nest is sometimes very easily reached, 
sometimes high-placed and inaccessible, usually more or less 
sheltered. Compared with the Raven’s it is slight, but 
well-built and warmly lined. In Man the birds show little 
solicitude or boldness in presence of an intruder, The nest 
does not seem to be used for more than one year, and though 
the same narrow neighbourhood is adhered to, the imme- 
diate site is changed. Thus in a wild gill a thousand feet 
above sea-level in Lonan, where for fifty years the nesting 
of Greybacks had been noted, three nests in various stages 
of dilapidation might at the same time be seen, two amid 
heather just under the steep edge of the brow, and one on 
a little rocky shelf at arm’s reach from the ground.’ In 
1 Such an occupation gave, no doubt, rise to the place-name ‘ Creggan y Annag,’ 
Little Crag of the Crow, at Greeba, where, however, the species does not now 
nest. Cronk ny Fannag, at S. Baldrine, Lonan, is an artificial tumulus. 
