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the entrances. The propensity of these birds to pick up 
and fly oft' with any attractive object, is so well known 
to the natives, that they always search the runs for any 
small missing article, as the bowl of a pipe, &c, that may 
have been accidentally dropped in the brush. I myself 
found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked 
stone tomahawk,' of an inch and a half in length, toge- 
ther with some slips of blue cotton rags, which the birds 
had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of 
the natives. For what purpose these curious bowers are 
made is not yet, perhaps, fully understood ; they are cer- 
tainly not used as a nest, but as a place of resort for many 
individuals of both sexes, which, when there assembled, 
run through and around th , bower in a sportive and 
playful manner, and that so frequently, that it is seldom 
entirely deserted." 
THE KAVEN. (Corvus Corax.) 
" The Raven sits 
On the raven-stone, 
And his black wing flits 
O'er the milk-white bone : 
