FISH-CROW. 
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reeds and marshes, to roost; while the Fish-Crow, always a little 
before sunset, seeks the interior high woods to repose in. 
In my journey through the Mississippi Territory, last year, 
I resided for some time at the seat of my hospitable friend. Dr, 
Samuel Brown, a few miles from Fort Adams, on the Missis- 
sippi. In my various excursions there among the lofty fragrance- 
breathing magnolia woods, and magnificent scenery, that adorn 
the luxuriant face of nature in those southern regions, this species 
of Crow frequently made its appearance, distinguished by the 
same voice and habits it had in Georgia. There is in many of 
the ponds there, a singular kind of lizard, that swims about with 
its head above the surface, making a loud sound, not unlike the 
harsh jarring of a door. These the Crow now before us would 
frequently seize with his claws, as he flew along the surface, and 
retire to the summit of a dead tree to enjoy his repast. Here I 
also observed him a pretty constant attendant at the pens, where 
the cows were usually milked, and much less shy, less suspicious, 
and more solitary, than the common Crow. In the county of 
Cape May, New Jersey, I again met with these Crows, partic- 
ularly along Egg-Harbour river; and latterly on the Schuylkill 
and Delaware, near Philadelphia, during the season of shad and 
herring fishing, viz. from the middle of March till the begin- 
ning of June, A small party of these Crows, during this period, 
regularly passed Bartram’s gardens, to the high woods, to roost, 
every evening a little before sunset, and as regularly returned 
at or before sunrise every morning, directing their course to- 
wards the river. The fishermen along these rivers also inform 
me, that they have particularly remarked this Crow, by his 
croaking voice, and his fondness for fish; almost always hover- 
ing about their fishing places, to glean up the refuse. Of their 
manner of breeding I can only say, that they separate into pairs, 
and build in tall trees, near the sea or river shore; one of their 
nests having been built this season in a piece of tall woods, near 
Mr. Beasley’s, at Great Egg-Harbour, The male of this nest 
furnished me with the figure in the plate, which was drawn of 
full size, and afterwards reduced to one-third the size of life, to 
