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and eat whatever was in it, whether young birds or eggs. 
There is one tall elm tree in particular on the boundaries of 
our place where I have watched them repeatedly attack the 
birds and eat the young.” (Amelia M. Brastow, Wrentham, 
Norfolk County.) 
“ The crows visit the orchard very early in the morning, 
usually about sunrise, and after their visit you can find 
many nests without eggs, that had a full complement the 
day before.” (I. Chester Horton, Ponkapog, Canton, Nor- 
folk County.) 
“ Directly back of my house is a bush pasture, in which 
are a few pines, cedars and birches. In the pines and 
cedars numerous robins build every spring ; and every 
spring about the nesting time of the crows I see them 
searching through these pines and cedars for — something. 
At no other time of year do I ever see a crow even alight 
in this pasture, to say nothing about visiting each tree sepa- 
rately, with every action indicating a search for something. 
One morning a few years ago I saw a crow drop into the 
top of a certain cedar in this pasture, and pick the eggs, 
one by one, from a robin’s nest there and eat them. A 
year or so later I saw the same thing done again, although 
this nest was in another cedar. At another time I saw a 
crow visit a robin’s nest in an oak tree. This nest con- 
tained young birds perhaps a week old, and, despite the 
protests of the parent birds, they were all carried away, 
apparently to feed the crow’s young. In a clump of pines 
southwest of the house a pair of crows had a nest one year, 
while the crows’ hunting ground was to the east of the 
house, so that the old crows often flew over the house while 
passing from the hunting ground to the nest. On one of 
these trips a crow had in its hill a young bird, unfeathered, 
which I identified at the time as a young robin. While 
there are many nests built every year in the pasture re- 
ferred to, I estimate that not one in ten ever contains 
young, and not half the young ever leave the nest alive. I 
know that at least one crow visited this pasture every day.” 
(R. H. Carr, Brockton, Plymouth County.) 
“ Crows destroy many nests of eggs. Think them the 
