Corvus araericanus . 
Concord, Mass. 
Lake--' Ufcateage&r— Mai»e . 
1897. During the latter half of the month the Crows in the re- 
April. gion about Ball's Hill have been exceedingly loquacious, mak- 
ing all the various sounds which I have heard from them in 
former years and in addition a peculiar succession of low 
whining and mewing cries which are quite new to me. At times 
these cries resembled those of young kittens, at others of 
children talking and laughing in low tones. I have heard them 
very many times and in different places, always when the two 
birds were together, once when a pair were engaged in copula- 
tion (April 30th) in the top of a low pine on Davis's Hill. 
Apparently, therefore, they are love notes. They are often 
followed by a succession of husky caws . 
