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others, as they frequently sailed about, without flappintf 
the wiiu'S, souiethinir in the manner ot the raven ; and 
1 soon ']>crceived that their food, and their mode of 
procuring it, were also both different : their favourite 
haunts heitifr about the banks of the river, alon^- which 
they usually sailed, dexterously snatching U|>, with their 
claws, dead iish, or other garbage, that tioated on the 
surface. At the country seat of .Stephen Klliot, Es(i. 
near the Ogechee river, I took notice of these crows 
frequently perching’ on the hacks ol the cattle, like the 
maopie and jackdaw of Britain ; hut never mingling 
with the common crows, and differing from them in 
this particular, that the latter generally retire to the 
shore, the reeds, and marshes, to roost, n hile the lish- 
crow always, a little before sunset, seeks the interior 
high woods to ri^pose in. .... 
On my journey through the Mississippi territory last 
year, I resided for some time at the seat of my hospi- 
table friend. Dr Samuel Brown, a few miles from Fort 
Adams, on the Mississijipi. lu my various excursions 
there, among the lofty fragrance-hreathiug magnolia 
wood's, and m.igniliceut scenery, t hat adorn the luxuriant 
face of nature in those southern regions, this species of 
crow freqinmtly made its appearaiiee, distinguished by 
the same voice and habits it Inid in Oeorgia. 1 here is, 
ill many of the ponds there, a singular kind of lizard, 
that swims about, with its head above the. surface, 
makiiiu’ a loud sound, not unlike the harsh jarring of 
a door.” These the crow iioiv before u.s would frequently 
seize with his claws, as he fl<!W along the surface, and 
retire to the summit of a dead tree to en joy his repast. 
Here 1 also observed him a pretty constant attendant 
at the pens where the cows were nsiially milked, and 
imich less shy, less suspicious, and more solitary than 
the common crow. Jn tiie county of Cape May, New 
Jersey, I again met with these crows, particularly along 
Egir-Harhour river ; and latterly on the Schuylkill and 
Delaware, near Philadelphia, during the season of shad 
and herring tishiiig, viz. from the middle of March till 
the hegimiiiig of June. A small party of these crows. 
