Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 09/23/1876.
    The Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club has the following remarkable ancedote’ of the intelligence of a crow: A tame crow [Corvus Americanus] in my possession has repeatly amused me by the the novel method he adopts to rid himself of parasites. For this purpose he deliberately takes his stand on an ant-mound, and permits the ants to crawl over him and carry away the troublesome vermin. The operation seems mutually agreeable to both parties-the ants quickly seizing upon the parasities and bearing them away. I have also noticed the same habits in another tame crow that I formerly had in my possession.
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