MILLIONS OF CROWS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3016, 24 February 1881, Page 4

MILLIONS OF CROWS.

Thr latest "yarn " from America is the following, which wo take from the Loxingtioti B.C. Press. It is a little " taller " than usual, but coming from such an excellent authority as the above i< must, of course, be quite true : —" A gentleman who resides near the elegant premises of Mr Inkslieep, about six miles north ol our city, reports •what is probably the most stupendous thing in the way of a crow-roost that has ever been seen since Noah's crow went to roost in the olive tree. The roost is in the magnificent woodland of Mr Inksheep, and our informant estimates the number of birds at 150,000,000. He says the largest oak trees have been uprooted and smaller ones crushed into kindling wood by their weight; that the noi?e made by them is so great that people for three miles around have to Bbuff cotton in their ears and are only enabled to communicate with each other through speaking trumpets after the crows begin to assemble. Cattle weighing 1500 pouuds have been killed by the birds and their bones picked clean, and the skeletons of hogs an sheep, which weighed 150 to 200 pounds, are dangling from the trees, where the crows have carried them, and the whole country is strewn with bones, as in the prophet's vision of " the Valley of Jehosaphat." Shooting at them is exceedingly dangerous. A gentleman in the employ of Mr Inksheep fired two shots into one of the trees and narrowly escaped suffocation from the falling birds."