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Title: The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward Augustus, 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds -- New England Birds -- Nests
Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes, and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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is in February and March, or about fortyunits. We have now but to condense the foregoing results, andwe have, in the aggregate, the sum total of the Crowsmerits and demerits. We find, that, during the whole year, it is beneficial to theamount of 229 units, and that it is injurious to the extentof 4,918 units. If, for tiie sake of the greatest indulgence,we take but one-fourth of this enormous disproportion asthe actual fact, we still have an exhibit that proves at oncethat these birds are not only worthless, but are ruinouslydestructive. In presenting this extended sketch, I will say that I amnot moved in the least by prejudice or ill feeling for a much-disliked bird, but that I state the facts as they are, andsimply to throw a little light on a subject that has givenrise to much discussion and controversy. In conclusion,I will say that the Jays are equally injurious with the Crows,and that they are not deserving of a moments indulgence01 protection at the hands of the ruralist. i«p
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Fish Cuow, Corvus ossifrayus. Wilson. THE FISH CROW. 363 COEVUS OSSIFEAGUS.—IFjTson. The Fish Grow. Corvus ossifraffus, Wilson. Am. Orn., V. (1812) 27. Nutt. Man., I. (1832) 216.Aud. Orn. Biog., II. (1834) 268; V. 479. Description. Fourth quill longest; second rather longer than seventh; first shorter than theninth; glossy-black, with green and violet reflections; the gloss of the bellygreenish. In this species the bill is shaped much as in the Common Crow, the upper outlineperhaps a little more convex; the bristly feathers at the base of the bill reachnearly half-way to the tip; I find no bare space at the base of the lower mandible,although the feathers are not quite so thick there as in the Common Crow; thetarsus has eight transverse scutelhe, and is decidedly shorter than the middle toewith its claw; the lateral claws do not reach within one-tenth of an inch of the baseof the middle claw. The wings are long and acute; the fourth is longest; next the third, fifth, second,and sixt

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