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Show ABOUT THE AGE OF A CROW. A Tag Would Indicate That One Lived More Than Twenty Years. A farmer living near Orrvlllo, Ohio, says a correspondent of tho Toronto Gloho, has Just received a much-prized llttlo aluminum pinto marked as follows: fol-lows: "Hoturn to George McCnrrcn, Orrvlllo, O," with which nn interest-lag interest-lag story is connocted. Georgo McCnrrcn, Sr., father of tho man who received tho llttlo billot of aluminum, wns nn eccentric naturalist and spent much tlmo in tho study of birds and Insects, During McCarron'a, youth, nbout twenty years ago, ho says ho remembers being told by his father, tho older McCarren, of n (lis-puto (lis-puto tho latter hnd with a fellow naturalist nat-uralist nt Akron, Ohio, ns to tho ago to bo attained by a common crow, and finally, to sottlo the matter, McCarren attached an aluminum tug to tho crow captured In the fields nnd sent tho bird forth with tho plato securely fastened to Its neck by wires. Tho legend on tho plato rcn,uo'ited tho flndor to ro-turn ro-turn It to McCarren In caso anything should happen to tho bird. As McCnrrcn, Jr., remembers It, tho two men mado n hot as to whether tho plato would ho returned within twen ty years. If tho crow wero killed or died thoy counted on tho llttlo billot bolng found nnd returned t tho address ad-dress on tho plato. If this woro not returned they bellovcd It would bo sufficient suf-ficient ovldcnco that tho bird would ub still alive. McCnrrcn bet thnt tho plato would not bo returned within that tlmo; henco ho won tho bet. Tho crow was killed by a farmor boy named Angers In Holmes county last week, and tho billot returned to tho son of tho better, tho elder McCnrron having died beforo ho could reallzotho proceeds and tho satisfaction of winning win-ning l)ls wngor. Th6 llttlo bilV;t is highly prized by the JfcCoirons as n momcnto of tho father's cccontrlr.'. |
