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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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■S^>/# H>T<5FAi NORTHERN RAVENOrder—Passeres Family—CoRviDyt Genus—CoRvus Species—corax principalis National Association of Audubon Societies The Raven 191 evening. This garbage-heap affords another interest to the bird-student, forGulls come up from the Lake and settle here in quest of food, and not infre-quently the hoarse croak of the Raven may be heard in the trees nearby. Infact, these great black birds come at irregular intervals all during the summerto pick up such scraps of food as strike their fancy. In August, 1916,1 saw a Raven feeding her three young with scraps pickedup at a garbage-heap back of a hotel on the western verge of the Glacier NationalPark in Montana. Although aware that she was being watched, the old Ravenwould unhesitatingly come to the garbage-heap, walk around until she foundsomething that suited her taste, and then fly with it to the trees 50 yards away.Apparently she would not suffer her young to leave the shelter of the forest.The wid

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