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General Notes. 
Twenty-two years afterwards, on the 28th of June, 1876, while mowing in 
the same meadow I found a similar nest of the Bobolink suspended from 
four stalks of the same species of plant growing in very nearly the same 
spot. The two specimens of very unusual and original nidification bore 
a remarkably strong resemblance and only differed to an appreciable ex- 
tent in the method of hanging. In the former case — that of 1854 — the 
stalks grew naturally at the angles of a square; in the latter — that of 
1876 — the stalks naturally grew at the angle of a trapezium and were 
drawn by the ingenious builders to the angles of a square at the points 
of fastening. The stalk w'hich had to be drawn the farthest from its natural 
position was stoutly woven into the side of the cup, the weaving material 
completely covering two joints and the space between them, while in each 
of the others only one joint was covered and attached simply to the rim. 
The bottom of this nest was eight inches above the ground and the leaves 
of the plant overhung the structure forming a very pretty canopy. 
From the fact that these two nests were found in the- same field and in 
very nearly if not precisely the same spot and upon the same species of 
plant, it is probable that the avian architects of 1876 were lineal descendants 
of the builders of 1854. In these productions of the skill of Bobolinks 
we have evidences of systematic, consecutive thought; of plans well laid 
and equally well executed. — Elisha Slade, Somerset, Mass. 
Southern. Range of the Raven on the Atlantic Coast of the 
United States.- — In July, 1880, I found the Raven to be an inhabitant of 
Cobb’s, Bone, and Mockhorn Islands, off the coast of Eastern Virginia, 
above Cape Charles. Solitary individuals were observed on one or the other 
of these islands almost every day during my stay of two weeks, at one time 
teased by Red-winged Blackbirds, at another by Black-headed Gulls, and 
again by Terns, as the Raven happened to approach their breeding grounds. 
Neither the Common Crow nor the Fish Crow were seen by me on these, 
islands, though they were abundant along the shore of the mainland. As 
has been my experience elsewhere, the inhabitants did not distinguish the 
Raven from its smaller congeners, but bv the islanders it was simply 
known as the “ Crow.” The species was easily recognized by its charac- 
teristic flight and peculiar notes, both of w'hich are quite distinct from 
those of the Crowds. — Robert Ridgway. Washington, D. C . 
The White-necked Raven (Corvus cryfitoleucus) in New Mexico. — 
Last fall while collecting birds in New Mexico I first noticed a pair of 
White-necked Ravens at Galisteo ; from. there on I saw the birds often, 
but nowhere in numbers until I reached San Marcial (on the Rio Grande, 
the then terminus of the railroad so rapidly being completed by the A. T. 
& S. Fe R. R. Co. to Guaymas and El Paso) where I was surprised to 
find them abundant and, in company with C. corax, flocking about the 
camping grounds of the graders and other workmen to pick up (as soon 
as the men were away) the scattered grains where the horses were fed, and 
from the offal around the tents. I counted one morning at sunrise over 
a hundred, and with them at least thirty Ravens. 
