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Show a onow coNoncaa. An rye-mine lleaerlbea One for Our lleuent. Hut Iho crows, what ot them? Luckily, Luck-ily, I gained an advantageous point ot view, after a deal of painful crawling through Iho weeds, nnd briers' thorns are sharper In January than nt other times, or human flesh more sensitive Adjusting tho field glass, I saw not fancied I snw that ono crow, from a commanding position, was haranguing Ihe assembled multitude What I heard was one crow' volco that varied or rung tho changes on tho bnsle syllable sylla-ble kaw about as follows. Ka-ce, ka kawl kaw ka; and then Ihero was a babel of kaw ka-a-o, that clearly ex-pressed ex-pressed assent, an apparent "that's so," that was ludicrously llko the chatter chat-ter ot congregated humanity when an orator stoops to their comprehension. After a momentary pnuso tho orator, as wo will call the speaking crow, resumed re-sumed his speech, and the variations of kaw kt were repeated, but with many sounda llko e-o and a trill, as ar-r-r-r Tho latter were always, I thought, uttered In a moro rapid manner man-ner than what I havo called tho baslo syllable, kaw, and certainly woro accompanied ac-companied with moro gestures, Ac-curato Ac-curato description Is Impossible, words and actions were so rapid, but my Impression would doubtless not havo varied bad Iho crow been more deliberate. delib-erate. Tho most striking traturo ot It all, hnwovrr, was tho dissent of tho gathering on two occasions, which was as plainly marked as tho previous assent as-sent had been. Tho utteranco was wholly different, nnd tho accompany Ing gestures likewise varied. Tho twisting and turning of tho head nnd neck was most pronounced n turning away, ns It wore, from tho suggestion', nnd Ihero wns also n decided wing movement that I did not notice before, corresponding lu romo miusiiro to tho hand and arm movement among ourselves our-selves when excltrd to tho point ot being be-ing demonstrative. 0 U. Abbott. |
