The Fall of the Year (Sharp), chapter v.
Educational Leaflet No. 82. (National Association of Audubon Societies.)
At the time this story goes to press, our national emblem is threatened with extermination. The following references indicate the situation in 1920:—
Conservationist, The, vol. 3, pages 60-61; "Our National Emblem."
National Geographic Magazine, vol. 38, page 466.
Natural History, vol. 20, pages 259 and 334; "The Dead Eagles of Alaska now number 8356."
Science, vol. 50, pages 81-84; "Zoölogical Aims and Opportunities," by Willard G. Van Name.
CORBIE
Corvus brachyrhynchos, the Crow.
The Bird (Beebe), pages 153, 158, 172, 200-01, 209. "When the brain of a bird is compared with that of a mammal, there is seen to be a conspicuous difference, since the outer surface is perfectly smooth in birds, but is wound about in convolutions in the higher four-footed animals. This latter condition is said to indicate a greater degree of intelligence; but when we look at the brain of a young musk-ox or walrus, and find convolutions as deep as those of a five-year-old child, and when we compare the wonderfully varied life of birds, and realize what resource and intelligence they frequently display in adapting themselves to new or untried conditions, a smooth brain does not seem such an inferior organ as is often inferred by writers on the subject. I would willingly match a crow against a walrus any day in a test of intelligent behavior.... A crow... though with horny, shapeless lips, nose, and mouth, looks at us through eyes so expressive, so human, that no wonder man's love has gone out to feathered creatures throughout all his life on the earth."