Show abe window of the crow A naturalist who is much in interested crested in birds says that the crow Is the wisest ot of all feathered animals he has made mada a number of 0 experiments recently and declares that an ordinarily well educated crow can count to twenty and that he has found a sentinel crow very old and very wise that can count to twenty six ile he made these discoveries la in a very interesting way recently he spent some time in the mountains ot of wales where a company of boys was camping out one day he found a lock flock of crows gathered round the body of a heep that had died and which la T r a barn they flew away as li approached bohe hid himself in th the oarn darn and waited but they would not come back then he went out and walked up the mountain and they all settled down again to the feast that afternoon he took tour four boys from the camp with him and they marched into the little building and walterl waited no crows came back two of the boys went out still no crows then the other two went out and only the naturalist remained but the old sentinel crow had evidently counted anem ahem as they went in and he knew they had not all come out at last the naturalist left the building and straightway all the crows returned this experiment was repeated a number of times with varying numbers of boys but the crows kept count and would not come down until the building was entirely empty |