Corvus amer icanus . 
Concord, 
1856. 
Oct. 27. 
Mass. Very tame. 
On the way down river this morning I saw a large floch 
of singularly tame Crows. There were upwards of a hundred of 
them perched in the trees on both banhs between Barrett's Bar 
and Hunt's Pond. They scarcely seemed to notice me and I 
paddled past or under scores of them within thirty feet or 
less. Others flying across the river passed directly over me 
within a few yards. Wot one, so far as could mahe out, either 
left its perch or changed its course because of my presence 
but several birds cawed at me derisively. Evidently these 
were northern birds fresh from some region where Crows are 
not much molested by man. Some of them c Inched and once I 
heard the "gobble". 
