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Resident 
Crows with 
pec ar calls 
strongly emphasized on the second syllable) has been heard 
at every season, for now half a dozen or more yeaxs, in 
the neighborhood of our farm and at Ball's Hill. Both 
localities have been frequented still longer, if less 
constantly, by another Crov/ whose habitual, if not only, 
utterance (I have heard him give no other) is a deep- 
intoned o\i-ah not unlike that of a Barred Owl and having 
acoustic qualities which render the sound extremely dif¬ 
ficult to locate but as regards distance and direction. 
Often have I thought its author far away when he was close 
at hand — or vice versax- He comes and goes at all 
seasons but sometimes is apparently absent for several 
successive weeks -- or even months. 
Ring-neck 
Pheasants 
Ring-necked Pheasants cannot have reared many, if 
any, young last summer, at least in our neighborhood, for 
those appearing there in autumn were few in number and 
apparently, virithout exception, adults of which nearly all 
were cocks,handsomely plumed and thoroughly versed in wiles 
by the exercise of which birds of their kind and sex safe¬ 
guard themselves so generally from every danger. They 
and the hens frequented the Berry Pasture chiefly but 
so sparingly and inconstantly as to be seen for the most 
part only singly and not oftener than once or twice vi^eekly. 
One or two resorted occasionally to a field of millet at 
the Ritchie place or to Lawrence's wide-stretching mowing 
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