. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. , like the crow,steals every sparkling thing he sees, from apair of scissors to a diamond ring. Much cau-tion must be shown in the feeding of thesebirds. They need raw meat, but if too much isgiven their naturalU bail temper grows worse. From remote times the crow has phiNed agreat pari among peo].)les and popular beliefs. In Germany, when he flies in a circle it is thought tobe a sign of war. Crows live in couples, and it sel-dom hajspens that they flock together, althoughit is said that they assemble in Iceland in theautumn
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. , like the crow,steals every sparkling thing he sees, from apair of scissors to a diamond ring. Much cau-tion must be shown in the feeding of thesebirds. They need raw meat, but if too much isgiven their naturalU bail temper grows worse. From remote times the crow has phiNed agreat pari among peo].)les and popular beliefs. In Germany, when he flies in a circle it is thought tobe a sign of war. Crows live in couples, and it sel-dom hajspens that they flock together, althoughit is said that they assemble in Iceland in theautumn to decide where each couple is to magpies were formerly thought to bebirds of ill omen. They brought disaster tothe houses they flew over, and if nine gatheredtogether one of them was sure to be a feathers, but not the bird itself, arestill held to bring trouble to the birds are very long-lived, usuall)- livingfrom twenty to twenty-four \ears ; but crowsantl rooks, especially rooks, are believed toexist for two The Crow and thk Rook XIIPIGEONS I. In Past and Present Times Though the pigeon comes at the end ofthis work, and consequently after many otherof our domestic animals, both quadrupeds andbipeds, it is not because it is less worthy ofesteem. Unlike the gallinaceous tribes, thepigeon, by its docility and its readiness toapproach man, is a better domestic animal inthe literal sense of the word than most of ourother feathered friends. Yet the pigeon has aquality that enables him, wheneverhe chooses, to break off instantly,and with far more ease thanour other domestic birds, theties of friendship that unitehim to house and can fly with a rapidityand to a distance unat-tainable by man — solong as the science of bal-looning is in its infancy. It is difficult to say whenthe pigeon was first known asa domestic animal. We knowcertain that he was such in ]toric times, so that his taming must dateback to the youth of
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