Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-03

us about the middle of the afternoon.
 Once an immense detachment perched
 On the tops of the leaflesS trees in our
 grove, and twice they blackened the
 ground on the crest of our highest
 moving lot. T should think they
 would starve,'' said fair observer.
 Well, the "corbies" may not always
 have enough to eat, but lots of them
 have heaps of fun with the local owls;
 hardly week in winter passes but
 some unlucky great t-hofned or barred
 owl is seen to run the gauntlet of his
 black tormertors. Where on earth do
 they ali breed ?' asks the fair observer.
 In the suburbs and environs of Nor
 wich Mir. Richards could pick up sixty
 sets of crows eggs in week easily,
 while could not gather half as many
 here in a season. Only three sor four pairs nest in our long range of woods,
 but dozen pairs breed in tall pines
 on slightly ridge on the Bemis place
 every year. From one of these nests
 was taken set of seven eggs From
 low-down nest in the sprout land, on the Lillibrldge farm in Norwich,
 once took a set af seven, one of which
 was an immaculate blue. A series of
 crows eggs, though not especially markings. But a series of Dluejay's
 eggs are much more interesting, for amorg the normal sets with gray and
 green grounds will be seen an occa-
 sional clutch with rich chocolate as
 the dominant shade.
 The red nacaw who has the run of
 the screened in verandahs and kitch-
 en. many times has called me hot-foot from the woods with his ringing ''Heigh-ho." He starts the dogs bark ing and the black Orpingtons cackling
 with his perfect limitations. He often
 deceives us by rappinsy on the window
 vff h hj1l with The
 ivory beak cracks peach-stones and
 butternuts. When mad he drives cats. dogs and humans out of doors with busy proboscis and fiendish shrieks. Though on occasion he can coo, ana wheedle, and whistle, yet he usually makes more noise than a talking ma- chine grinding Sousa's Invincibie Ea- gle and an old missing" gasoline en- zine, with the muffer off. Polly surely came from the Cannibal Isles. for he swallows the pieces he digs out of our hands and faces. Omniverous, for he eats fur, flesh fowl, fruits, seeds, grain. old bones, clothespins, and door knobs. He belongs to the Order of Climbers; and he does net belle his classification. for with bill and claw he shins up the bare wall of room and eats off the tops of doors and cabinets. He throws tin, china, cut glass and bottles on the floor with his playthings of pans, dip- pers and waterpails, in one sad burial blent. Though our red macaw is real ly household pet, he is so destructive and makes such an internal noise that we may change his diet to arsenic and place him side by side with his blue and gold congener in the Quail Trap collection of parrots.
 Trapped on the carcass of an old dead sheep in Salem, Conn.,, in mid winter. is the data on the large female golden eagle in the collection at the bungalow. Both my male and female white headed eagles were shot on the Billings Stoddard farm at Stoddard' 5 wharf when robbing the chicken yard or picking up young turkey broods. Rarely making an osprey drop its long been accustomed to feed upon the dead fish floating in the Thames river. Noting that these eagles for a time used to take their offaI to eat on a tall pine on Stoddard's mountain, MT John Young. my old bird stuffer, the big buzzardS with skinned eels in the shaffoUs of Poquetanuck Cove, and valentine bait was taken to the pine to be eaten, the birds were shot from brush houses. Five eagles, I think, were decoyed in this way. One of these mounted whiteheads was for a long time in the window of MT. Martin s house on Williams street, another in Dr. Clapp's office, and two fine skins among John Young's effects
 l A Pennsylvania wild sobbIer, finely set up on a log, with dragging wings and expanded tail, held the place of honor on the dining table before the I wondering guests tt a holiday dinner at the Quail Trap, till, at a given sig nal he was removed, and his place 1 taken by huge domestic brother, 1 beautifully drowned. and exhaling l odors from the Blessed Isles While 1 carving and serving the royal bird, the host seemed to be wrestling with some i trouble on his mind. till at length. ges- i ticulating with the greasy carving l knife. he spouted the following in- promptu:
 l Protect your American eagle,
 1 Let him rob, and prey, and soar, 1 Flaunt his pirate pinions
 l And scream from shore to shore l But give me a big Tom Turkey. i The noblest bird of all.
 1 He'll whip your coward eaglet
 ] And drive him to the wall
 ! And if you were called to choose, The eagle would have no show. For you would all vote for turkey, 1 And let the bald-headed buzzard l go! c. l.. R. Bridaeport.-The Connecticut Ma ] tional bank plans to build a five story addition to it's present structure and remodel the old building.