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the vicinity of their nest, and utter a curious inward sound, 
‘kung, very different from their deep and menacing croak, 
‘eruck,’ 
They are occasionally to be met with on the mountain 
lands and elsewhere, away from their breeding haunt, and 
seem then to be exceedingly wary. They are sometimes 
attracted into the cultivated lands by the presence of offal. 
Mr. Allison has seen thirty-four together on South Barrule. 
Mr. Kermode records a white Raven at Orrisdale, but 
Mr. Crellin tells me that this is a mistake. There is a fine 
specimen there, but it is entirely black. 
Much might be said of the habits of this interesting bird 
in captivity. A Manx Raven kept by Mr. Graves showed 
much excitement when Rooks passed overhead, and Mr. 
T. H. Nelson, who has another in his possession, tells me 
that he has heard it imitate exactly their ‘ caw.’ 
A Raven is reported from Langness on 8th August 1887 
(2 at the light). 
‘If a Raven lighted on the roof of a house, or went flying 
round it, it was considered’ in Manx folk-lore, according 
to Mr. C. Roeder,’ ‘a sure sign of the death of some one of - 
the family. The same idea is more than once found in 
Shakespeare (Macbeth, 1. v.; Othello, Iv. i.) and other writers 
of his time. 
In Ireland, as in England, the species has been driven from 
most inland haunts; it breeds, however, in the Wicklow 
Mountains, and nested on Lambay till 1883. It still nests on 
the mountains of Antrim and Down, and on Rathlin Island. 
In Galloway, though much persecuted, it is still resident, 
and some pairs nest in the Lake Mountains, and, though 
there verging on extinction, on the wilder hills of 
Lancashire. It breeds also in the Scottish islands, and is 
still in many of them comparatively common. 
1 Manx Notes and Queries, p. 32. 
