Title: Fourteen weeks in zoology
Identifier: cu31924002809501 (find matches)
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Steele, Joel Dorman, 1836-1886
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc. ) A. S. Barnes & Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Corrii.<! corax. Raven Corvidse.— The true Crow and the Jay pass so insensibly into each other lis hardly to present a di- viding line. The Bave% though rare in the Eastern States, is generally dis- tributed throughout North America.* It exhib- its wonderful sagacity in two feet in length, and, after winding several inches of one end many times around the part of the branch still imbedded in the matting of the nest, drew all taut and then fastened the other end by a tuck-under knot to a fork in the branch full ten inches above. Fig. 202 is en- graved from a photograph of this curiously-mended nest, kindly furnished by the curator of the mu- _f^^_ seum, Prof. J. W. P. JenkB.
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i Raven is generally consid- of evil omen. It is easily ,/famed and taught to repeat sentences. Pliny tells of one which was accus- tomed to stand in a public place in Rome, and call out the name of every passer-by. There is a story related of an awkward horseman who fell from his seat, and at that moment a raven in the tree above cried out, with its solemn voice, "How silly I" Charles Dickens in his preface to Bar- Neat of Oriole. naby Rudgc, gives his amusing experience with tame ravens. Our Common Crow (Cor- vus americdnus) CQiXi. be distinguished from the Raven by being much smaUer and by

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