A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE
DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS

Official Organ of the Audubon Societies

Vol. 1December, 1899No. 6

[A Search for the Reedy Island Crow Roost]

BY WITMER STONE

Curator of Birds, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.

AMERICAN CROW
Photographed from life by W. Gordon Smith

In the Delaware river, just where it begins to widen out into the bay, and midway between the shores of Delaware and New Jersey, lie two long, low islands, known as 'The Pea-patch' and 'Reedy Island.'