Decrease of Birds in Mass. J. A. Allen 
In scores of the early enumerations of the birds of New England, 
and of the Atlantic States generally, the Raven, as well as the 
Crow, is mentioned. This seems to imply that the Eaven, at the 
time of the first settlement of the country, was more or less com- 
mon from Virginia to Maine, and that persecution, combined with 
its natural timidity, has caused its expulsion from the more thickly 
settled parts of the Eastern States. 
Bull. N. O.O, I, Sept, 18v0. p, jr 6~ 
cAdtof, Mrvtv Jh*rb<v, fluty % I. Jla lu^ynx^v 
Can you tell me if a Raven ever lias a white 
or yellow bill ? The only live Raven that I 
got close enough to examine apparently had an 
ivory-colored bill. It / might possibly be 
coated with something it was eating, but seemed 
to be the color of the bill. 
Chas. A. McLennan. 
Truro, Nova Scotia, July 8, 1889. 
O.&o. XIV, ^,.1889 
82. Ravens and Crows. By S. B. Buckley. Ibid., XIV, p. 44. — Mostly 
about the distribution of these species in Texas, and on some traits of 
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