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Corvus ossifragus, Wils. On the morning of March 16th, 1875, 
I saw a bird of this species flying swiftly over our place in Cam- 
bridge. It was pursued by at least twenty-five or thirty of our 
common species, ( Corvus Americanus ), and at each renewnal of 
their attacks gave utterance to its peculiar and unmistakable 
notes. Having thoroughly familiarized myself with its voice 
and motions in the South, where it is abundant, I feel confidant 
that I could not in this instance have made any mistake. The 
very fact of its having drawn the angry attention of so many 
common crows, at a season too when their gregarious habits are 
given up for more social relations, proves that it was to them 
an object of novelty and one deemed worthy of suspicion and 
hatred, I am not aware that any such feeling' is maintained 
when the two species come together in numbers ; but however 
this may be matters little, as our bird habitnally treats all sus- 
picious strangers in a like manner, and the collector is not sel- 
dom indebted for a rare hawk or owl to the watchful eye and 
clamorous alarum of this sable sentinel. 
Bull, N.Q.O. I, April, 1870. p. . 
Capture of a Fish Crow ( Corvus ossifragus) at Wareham, Massachu- 
setts. — Inasmuch as my record (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, I, 1876, p. 19) of a 
Fish Crow seen at Cambridge, March 16, 1875, has been treated with 
wholesome caution — not to say incredulity — by several recent writers on 
New England birds, it gives me pleasure to present a second and quite un- 
impeachable instance of the occurrence of the species in Massachusetts. 
This time the bird was actually taken at Wareham, July 16, 1884, by Mr. 
E. A. Bangs, in whose collection the specimen is now preserved, and to 
whom I am indebted for the following account of its capture : 
“I was fishing with my brother in Tihonet Pond and, as usual on such 
occasions, had my gun with me. While crossing the pond we saw two 
birds sitting on a tree near the mouth of a brook. From their actions I 
thought at first that they were Pigeons, but on getting nearer made out 
that they were black and resembled small Crows. We approached them 
with all possible caution, but they flew before we got within sixty yards. 
I brought down one, when the other circled over it for a moment, but it 
escaped before I could reload the gun (a single barrel). The one I killed 
proved to be a female in full plumage.” — William Brewster, Cambridge , 
provei 
Mass. 
Auk, 4, April 1887. P. /(oX ■ 
Corvus ossifragus. — On the tenth of last April a Fish Crow was seen 
in Forest Park in Springfield. Only on very rare occasions do representa- 
tives of this species of bird come up the Connecticut valley as far as this 
point. While the bird in question was not taken, a very close inspection 
was had, and the observers were guided to the vicinity of the bird by the 
easily identified notes that it uttered. 
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