among the dense foliage. They seeiaed to haire no fe®r ox 
suspioioa but sought theix xoosts without hesitation ox loss 
of time. A few restless birds, however, flitted from thicket 
to thicket before they finally settled for the night. I 
counted upward of 175 of which about one half were Rusties 
and all the others apparently Cow-birds. They mad© a 
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deafening cl&aor, keeping it up until ne-xly darlfp. 
The Crow Rlaokblrds arrived ju^'t after stanaet in 
three flocks which followed one another in qdlck succession. 
The first flock contained 19 birds, the second about 30, 
the third ililly 75. They all alighted together in the 
dense white maples on the bank of the river. For several 
minutes they remained perched on the tops of the upright 
shoots where they clustered as thick as bees. They they 
began descending into the foliage and seeking their roosta 
This took a long time fully twenty minutes, 1 paddled 
slowly past the trees and then floated back past them. 
Alth mgh the evening was perfectly calm, the foliage of the 
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maples was constantly agitated by the movements of the 
restless birds. I could see many of them among the leaves 
against the bright light In the western sky. They were 
perched, as a rule, about 15 feet from the ground and 
5 or 6 feet below the dome of foliage that covered the 
tops and ends' of the branches. A few birds which were 
still outside the mass of foliage took alarm at my ap roach 
and flew to other trees but they soon returned. Every bird 
In the flock apparently was uttering its creaking notes. 
