Crows Fishing. —A propos of some notes recently published by Mr. 
Chamberlain on the fish-eating propensities of the Crows of New Bruns- 
wick Mr. Manly Hardy writes me that he has twice seen Crows fishing in 
the Penobscot River near Bangor. On one occasion several of them were 
flying about over the water occasionally dipping down like Swallows, and 
seizing some floating matter which he thought might be offal from ves- 
sels. At another time they were making frequent forays from a boom- 
pier, to which they returned after each flight. They often struck the 
water with sufficient force to violently agitate its surface but never 
actually dove. 
Mr. Hardy also speaks of their eating sea-urchins and other shell-fish, 
a habit which, of course, has been already reported ; and he has known 
them to devour a string of twenty good-sized trout which had been left 
in a spring under water, well concealed, as he supposed, by the over- 
hanging alders. — William Brewster, Cambridge , Mass. 
Bull N.0. 0. 8iJan, X88S* p, 6 ~ 9 . 
Dwight, Summer Birds of 
PrinceJEdward Island,, 
Corvus americanus. American Crow.— -Nowhere, in the breeding 
season, have I ever seen Crows so abundant and so tame. They were 
never out of sight or hearing, and they sit on the fences and ‘caw" at you 
derisively as you ride by. Of course their numbers were augmented bv 
young birds, and early in July they were beginning to flock, as indicated 
by a gathering of nearly a hundred seen July 4. AtTignish there was a 
roost in a large patch of woods, whither towards sundown and later 
Crows were seen converging from all directions. In the woods a terrible 
noise was kept up until it grew dark. The Crows do not molest the 
farmer to any great extent, as he raises no corn, but I was told they kill 
young chickens and pick out the eyes of new-born lambs. They daily 
congregate for a feast in the fields where the refuse of the many lobster- 
canning establishments is used as a fertilizer. 
Auk X, Jan, 1893, p.10 
Tiie Crow’ s Fondness for Chicken.— It is getting 
so now that the farmer and poultry raiser have more to 
fear from the ravages of the Crow than from all others 
of the feathered tribe. He will come down into the 
door-yard, right under the farmer’s nose and fly off 
with a chick, and the old “ scare-crow ” of by-gone 
days has no effect upon his nibship when he is after 
his favorite morsel. Why is it that, until lately, we 
have heard nothing of this habit of the Crow? Is it 
something new of him? I for one have noticed it 
only for the past two years.— [S. R. Ingersoll, Ballston 
Spa, N.Y. 
Oj&Qo sy, ■jEB@ a i8&o, p.&e 
■Winter Notes from Stephentown, N. T. 
Ben j amin Hoag. 
February 10, while at Pontoosac Lake, 
near Pittsfield, Mass., on a fishing trip I 
noticed numbers of Crows sitting on the 
trees along the shore. Now and then one 
of them would swoop down near the holes 
where the lines ^were set, and pick up 
something. I soon found it was the dead 
minnows they were after. A resident of 
the locality told me that on the day before 
Ij they stole two fine pickerel from one man. 
O.&O.V 0 I.I 8 , Jan. 1893 p.12 
Birds and Their Relation to Agriculture, 
J. A. Singley, Giddings, Texas. 
No. 5. American Crow (Corvus fruc/ivorus). 
Adult female. Nov. 15, 1887, 10 a. 111 . Stomach 
acorns and Coleoptera. 
O.&O. XIII. Feb. 1888 p.24 
Birds and Their Relation to Agriculture. 
J. A. Singley, Giddings , Texas. 
No. 4. American Crow (Corvus frugivorus). 
Adult male. March 2, 1887, 10 a. m. Shot by 
my neighbor in his corn field; newly planted. 
Stomach contained two grains of corn, and a 
large number of cut worms. 
O.&O. XIII. Feb. 1888 p.24 
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