separated, by a distance of about 80 rods answered 
giving the same note in a harder higher tone, 
immediately four crows came up from the woods and 
divided two going to meet each one. They met and 
th leCi back and P erformed the whole distance to 
y de V/oods with set wings and going like bullets. 
iPey looked like huge bows as they descended to 
6 level of the woods in great swooping bounds 
seeming to fairly rebound from the air as they 
c Q cked at the end of each descent. 
1 approached them I gave a crow callnote 
n( i immediately they all flew up cav.ing loudly, 
everal mounted high in the air and circled around 
thout moving their wings. They kept their feet 
&wn close up to their bodies and turned their 
®£ds fearlessly in all directions. One even bent 
jt S , head - d °wn under its breast to look at me after 
had passed. I counted twenty-one in the air 
Whp°^ C f 1 _ and others sat in the trees. In one place 
■ L1 -ey had been sitting on a fence their 
s gave off a very disagreeable odor which 
ceable at six or eight feet away, 
bi h Sa ^ dovra ky the plum orchard and soon saw a 
the diking on a bit of lawn like grass across 
river and by the use of my opera glass dis- 
^ )i V ® re<i several others. They were red-winged black- 
piv^* The ^ v ®hked along in a hurried manner 
On in& at erass each one trying to be first. 
iU Q 6 was some distance behind the main flock and saw 
Hie S ave the alarm. They flew into an elm above 
I notes like kwut kwut and the usual chuck. 
f* 1 the first one gave the alarm again and" they 
^ away. There were ten of them. 
I'wo ^ ^ us ^ fa ^ °reek I climbed a tree and sat down. 
6& , ;vhite “breasted nuthatches fussed and talked to 
t n other across the river and then flew into my 
6 a-ch* llley hun ted around and called sociably to 
I that ° ther * 0ne had a Piece of suet probably from 
T W ° 0w ‘ It tried one crevice of the bark with it 
Jut • . did n0t suit and so it pulled it out and 
ln another * It was trying to hide it. It 
- 0 red it down and then nibbled it a little to 
f) 
ir °Pping 
not! 
