. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. Photograph by Dr. A. A. Allen YOUNG CROWS ARE MOSTLY ArrETlTE This is the welcome home which awaits Jim Crow or his spouse when they return to the nest with dinner. Tliey are faithful parents and work hard to keep their youngsters' voracious hunger appeased. kill the newborn lambs and sickly sheep. So the people made war upon him, and to-day ravens do not btiikl their nests within the boundaries of that State. The bird is not uncommon in Maine, especially near the sea, where he is a scourge to
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. Photograph by Dr. A. A. Allen YOUNG CROWS ARE MOSTLY ArrETlTE This is the welcome home which awaits Jim Crow or his spouse when they return to the nest with dinner. Tliey are faithful parents and work hard to keep their youngsters' voracious hunger appeased. kill the newborn lambs and sickly sheep. So the people made war upon him, and to-day ravens do not btiikl their nests within the boundaries of that State. The bird is not uncommon in Maine, especially near the sea, where he is a scourge to some of the bird colonies of that rocky coast. On the island of No Mans Land, near the fishing village of Matinicus, Maine, a pair of ravens has lived for years in a nest in a sturdy ever- green tree. How long ago it was built I was not able to learn, but it is a verv substantial structure. Year after year it has been repaired by the addition of a few new sticks, a little fresh wool, a few bill- fuls of seaweed, and small roots to help shape afresh the ample bowl for the eggs. Defying the fierce gales which in winter sweep over these icy seas, the eerie stands secure, and every season has seen it occu- pied by young ravens, which, here at least, need not "lack and suffer ; On this rocky island, safe from the ordi- nary enemies of birds which haunt the neighboring mainland, many thousands of herring gulls assemble in summer. Their eggs, as well as the young, are constantly eaten by the ravens, and a continuous war- fare goes on between the two species. On a sagebrush slope in northern Ne- vada I foimd a raven feeding itpon a sage hen, and in a little opening in a Utah for- est I came upon three ravens and a turkey vulture eating the body of a young mule deer. Probably in neither case were the ravens responsible for the death of the creatures upon which they were feasting. It makes no difference to the raven how long an animal has been dead ; he seems to relish c
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