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Range (Northern North America) (II)

Northern North America from Greenland to Alaska, south on the Pacific coast to British Columbia, and on the Atlantic coast to North Carolina; of local distribution in the eastern United States. Nest, compact and symmetrical, of sticks lined with grasses, wool, etc., added from year to year, in trees or on cliffs. "Eggs, two to seven, pale bluish green, pale olive, or olive spotted or dashed (or both) with olive-brown (sometimes nearly uniform olive from density of markings), 2.02 x 1.38" (Ridgw.). "The usual note of the Raven is a hoarse, rolling cr-r-r-cruck, but he has other cries. ... "Despite their difference in size and habits, I must confess that I often had difficulty in distinguishing Ravens from Crows. Every one must have noticed how the apparent size of a Crow will vary under different conditions of the atmosphere; it is the same with the Raven. At times he looks as big as an Eagle; at others scarcely larger than a