Corvus americanus. 
1892. Mass . 
Oct; 6. , Koncord.- and probably migrating. Tlie number of scattered 
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birds was about as usual. 
Oct. 8. Concord .- Holden's meadow was alive with Crows walking about Si* 
feeding. I counted fifty. They reminded me of the Rooks in 
England. Every little while a few would rise and start off 
southward cawing loudly as if calling on the others to follow 
but all such attempts failed to start the main host to which 
these adventurous pioneers invariably returned. One of them 
however succeeded at length in raising great excitement by dis- 
covering an Owl (doubtless the same Bubo which I have seen there 
before this autumn) in Holden's woods and shouting the news in 
Crow language to the feeding birds, "An Owl, an Owl^Wake up you 
sleepy, murderous, yellow-eyed vilain, you mule eared knave, come 
on, friends, and help me drive the thief from his stronghold. 
Let us plick out his cat ears and gouge out his big eyes and 
pummel and peck him to death." All this and much more to the 
same purpose, if I understood the Crow rightly. He did not call 
in vain for in a twinkling the sable horde left their repast and 
came trooping to the woods y/here they clustered all over the tops 
of the trees and shouted and cawed and swore as long as I was 
in hearing. 
Oct. 12. Concord.- At about II A. M. as we were passing Dakin's Hill an Im mense 
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enormous flock of Crows rose from Holden's meadow and circled f lo . c ^ of 
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