IS NOT THE FISH CROW (Corvus ossifragus Wilson) A 
WINTER AS WELL AS SUMMER RESIDENT AT THE 
NORTHERN LIMIT OF ITS RANGE? 
l/TJj HE above query presented itself to me, January 2, 1882, when I 
4 k received a fine specimen of this bird from Mr. D. B. Keeler, 
Jr., of Rumsen's Neck, near Sandy Hook, N. J. It proved on dis- 
section to be a female, whose stomach was filled with partially di- 
gested fish. 
I presume that no one now questions the northern boundary of the 
habitat of the Fish Crow to be the upper New Jersey coast, Long 
Island, Lower Hudson Valley, and the coast line of Connecticut, with 
an occasional visitor to Massachusetts. I think that the records given 
by Messrs. Zerega, Roosevelt, Bicknell, and others, to which I will 
more particularly refer hereafter, establish this as a fact without 
doubt. It is only within a few years that this Crow has been positively 
credited to the localities above mentioned, although it may be that it 
was always as common with us as it is now, but that owing to the 
close resemblance to its larger brother ( C. frugivorus), it escaped the 
observation of the earlier naturalists. 
Until very recently all references to the Fish Crow at the northern 
limit of its habitat have been to the effect that it was there a summer 
resident only. This opinion has been so generally accepted that it 
is unnecessary here to bring forward any particular records. The 
